Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Ian Anderson
Thierry Koblentz wrote: height:1% or height:0 or whatever height you set gives layout to an element, which is not the case with display:inline. Making sure an element hasLayout is a big tool in the box when it comes to fix IE bugs. Just FYI, over on CSS-D there was a thread today about a web

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Bert Doorn
Ian Anderson wrote: IE7 will respect height: 1%, which if not filtered away from it could break many layouts. They are retaining hasLayout as an internal property and recommend using zoom: 100% for inducing hasLayout as a replacement technique for height: 1%. Which W3C

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bert Doorn wrote: Which W3C standard/recommendation for CSS defines the zoom property? I don't see it in the CSS 2.1 spec. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html Look in MS special non-standard instead. If indeed it's not defined in any CSS standard/recommendation, are MS effectively

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Al Sparber
From: Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which W3C standard/recommendation for CSS defines the zoom property? I don't see it in the CSS 2.1 spec. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html If indeed it's not defined in any CSS standard/recommendation, are MS effectively saying: We recommend you

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Vincent Hasselgård
Does this mean we're supposed to make all the sites we've ever made useless in IE5 and IE6?Maybe it's time we just give up on Internet Explorer and design for standards compliant browsers instead?The sad thing is that of course everyone who's using Explorer will blame the designer of the site and

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Vincent Hasselgård wrote: Does this mean we're supposed to make all the sites we've ever made useless in IE5 and IE6? No need to dump earlier versions. IE7 has some bug-fixes and somewhat better selector-support. Apart from that it's just an IE6 which is slightly harder to make behave like a

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-10 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/10/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vincent Hasselgård wrote: The sad thing is that of course everyone who's using Explorer will blame the designer of the site and our clients will rip the hair out of their heads because most people use IE anyway. Don't panic... Sit down

[WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Cade Whitbourn
Wow. Microsoft are taking very pro-active measures to assist the developer community in fixing sites for IE7. I received an email from someone on the 'IE7 compatibility team' with a screenshot of our site in IE7 and a list of all our stylesheets with all the filters and hacks identified that we

RE: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread kvnmcwebn
Have other site owners received any similar contact from the IE7CPTTM yet? no can you share yours? best kvnmcwebn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 10 Feb 2006, at 10:49 AM, Cade Whitbourn wrote: Wow. Microsoft are taking very pro-active measures to assist the developer community in fixing sites for IE7. I received an email from someone on the 'IE7 compatibility team' with a screenshot of our site in IE7 and a list of all our

RE: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Geoff Pack
Cade Whitbourn wrote: Wow. Microsoft are taking very pro-active measures to assist the developer community in fixing sites for IE7. I received an email from someone on the 'IE7 compatibility team' with a screenshot of our site in IE7 and a list of all our stylesheets with all the

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Alastair Steel
Why would you hack standards compliant code for Microsoft. Ask if they would like to foot the bill or if they had considered writing an application that was standards compliant. Forget that as it may not have all the bugs and vulnerabilities that we have come to know and love. Yours

RE: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Cade Whitbourn
no confidential information in the email that I can see). Cade. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alastair Steel Sent: Friday, 10 February 2006 11:53 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team Why

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Cade Whitbourn wrote: The compatibility issue is caused by our use of CSS filters. They specificially highlight our use of Star HTML Hack, Selector HTML Hack and the Holly Hack. I'm not sure what you mean by the Selector HTML Hack. The problem with the * html filter is that they removed it

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Kenneth Fraser
Greetings, From my experience when I run into an IE bug (double-margin / 3 pixel jog) that could use height: 1% to fix it, I use display: inline as an alternative and it saves a hack in your code or one less reason to use a conditional comment. I haven't noticed any problems with other

Re: [WSG] IE7 Compatibility Team

2006-02-09 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Kenneth Fraser wrote: Greetings, From my experience when I run into an IE bug (double-margin / 3 pixel jog) that could use height: 1% to fix it, I use display: inline as an alternative and it saves a hack in your code or one less reason to use a conditional comment. I haven't noticed any