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CSS Support Improved in IE7, but Nowhere Up To Par
Great article over on ArsTechnica about how IE7 is supposed to have much better CSS support. As a developer who has been suffering through MS CSS schlock for the last year, it sounds like good news. But that ain't all there is.
Seems like Microsoft has promised to do better, but there is a long way to go. In other words, CSS support will be better in IE7, but they are not going all the way. Instead, security will be job #1 for Microsoft.
IE is a ghastly beast already, with hooks, traps, and registry entries thrown all over the place. Half of the OS is tied into it, and tools like FrontPage use the engine (obviously) to display your web pages while you are editing them. They should go all the way with CSS, in my opinion.
I just sent out a newsletter on Monday. Nothing fancy, just a CSS style sheet and some straight HTML. I tried linking to a web style sheet, but MS wasn't about to let me get away with that convenience. So I finally embedded all my styles into the html file. I saved it and bought it up -- looking good. On my computer, it looked fine. When I sent a test message, it looked great in the "sent" folder. On other people's computer, however, it looked like junk. The hyperlinks were invisible to the user, and the style sheet was reformatted in some strange way only Microsoft can understand.
This was a very simple thing to ask a thousand dollars worth of software to do. I'm not trying to beat up Microsoft again -- they do good work at times -- but IE has been hosed up since the big Netscape fiasco. Let's hope they get back on track, and quickly.
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