Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-08 Thread Barney Carroll
Chris Ovenden wrote: I have to disagree. According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.shtml), only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed (ie only about a third of XP users). Even if we assume all those people accept the IE7 upgrade (and it's

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-08 Thread Chris Ovenden
On 11/8/06, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Ovenden wrote: I have to disagree. According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.shtml), only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed (ie only about a third of XP users). Even if we

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-08 Thread Jason Pruim
On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Chris Ovenden wrote: On 11/8/06, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Ovenden wrote: I have to disagree. According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/ browser_support.shtml), only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-08 Thread david
Barney Carroll wrote: Chris Ovenden wrote: I have to disagree. According to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.shtml), only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed (ie only about a third of XP users). Even if we assume all those people accept the

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-07 Thread Patrick James
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:50:06 +, Ross Hulford wrote (in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Ian, Have been deleloping using ie7 for a few weeks now and will have to say it is much better. Really frustrating things like png alpha transparency are now working whcih although not stricly a css

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Ovenden
On 11/6/06, Erik Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the bright side, any XP user who has update notification turned on will be prompted to install it automatically, so it should have pretty wide usage among WinXP users who haven't seen the light and downloaded Firefox or Opera. :) I have to

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-06 Thread Ross Hulford
Hi Ian, Have been deleloping using ie7 for a few weeks now and will have to say it is much better. Really frustrating things like png alpha transparency are now working whcih although not stricly a css issue does cause problems. A nice feature is the full sceen zoom (which opera has had for a

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-05 Thread Ian Young
So as to remain somewhat on topic, I'll phrase my question carefully ;) With regards to CSS, is IE7 more or less friendly than IE6? Thanks! Ian That depends on your point of view. If you mean is it more compliant than IE6, then the answer is yes. Not perfect but a much better

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-05 Thread Erik Harris
At 07:02 PM 11/5/2006, Ian Parsons wrote: With regards to CSS, is IE7 more or less friendly than IE6? More, but still far from perfect. They appear to have added support for fixed positioning, and they've added hover support for more than just a elements. Unfortunately, even though it shares