Nick,
Only a couple years? I'm a bit more pessimistic. Many web developers
are still trying to ensure their site works in IE5/Mac and some even
IE5.5/Win. Only Windows XP will be getting IE7. So if we are to
support Mac OS 8/9 with IE5 because no new version is coming out for it
(nor Safari/Firefox) then when will we ever be able to let go of IE6?
Those systems are over five years old. If we want to support any
platform below XP we pretty much can't... so what do we really gain
from even having an IE7? The comfort in knowing that in 6-10 years it
might be acceptable to finally drop the obsolete, I guess...
Regards,
Hao
Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
Hi,
i've read somewhere that many IE CSS deficiencies won't be addressed in
the new IE release at all. Is this really so bad?
I don't want to see all those pages looking bad in the new IE just
because Microsoft suddenly decided to apply to standards and all those
old IE-hacks behave awkward now.
Despite all the naysayers (most of whom would hate MS to fix _anything_,
as they'd have to find something else to whinge about), the IE team are
planning to fix quite a lot of stuff. See their list at
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx
for details.
Now that MS have engaged with the Web Standards Project, we can expect to
see a gradual improvement; but just fixing the bugs the IE team list in
the above-mentioned piece will sort out about 99% of the IE problems I
encounter on a daily basis.
However, we'll probably have to wait at least a couple of years before the
public upgrade in sufficient numbers for us to say "IE 6 is dead! Long
live IE 7!" :-(
So don't throw away your hacks just yet.
Regards,
Nick.
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