Waiting for Beta 2
July 30th, 2005 by Kelson. Posted in Browsers, Web Design and tagged for browser, IE7, internet, WebWell, I didn’t get around to downloading IE7 beta 1 yesterday, so I won’t be able to check it out over the weekend. But it’s become clear that, from a web developer’s point of view, all the action is slated for beta 2. Yesterday the IE team posted on Standards and CSS in IE, listing a number of CSS bugs they’ve fixed and a number of new features they’ve already implemented. It reads like a wish list:
- HTML 4.01
ABBRtag - Improved (though not yet perfect)
<object>fallback - CSS 2.1 Selector support (child, adjacent, attribute, first-child etc.)
- CSS 2.1 Fixed positioning
- Alpha channel in PNG images
- Fix
:hoveron all elements - Background-attachment: fixed on all elements not just body
Fixed positioning! Child and Attribute selectors! Full PNG transparency (though we knew about that one already)!
Now if they’ll just implement min-width/max-width and fix the behavior of width, and add generated content via :before and :after, I think my wish list will be complete. (Assuming, of course, a low enough bug level.)
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