http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2005/02/ie7-what-an-interesting-turn/ Jouni Heikniemi's IT adventures Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2005/02/ie7-what-an-interesting-turn/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Jukka K. Korpela Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:44:46 +0000 http://www.heikniemi.net/hardcoded/2005/02/ie7-what-an-interesting-turn/#comment-146 I'm afraid IE 7 might be just a collection of security fixes, but the announcement about IE 7 is still an important change in policy. At best, IE 7 has real XHTML support and, most importantly, an essential improvement to CSS support as regards to selectors. These would make it possible to take real steps forward in WWW authoring in the next few years. Around early 2007, optimistically speaking, authors could even stop doing silly things to be compatible with IE 6 flaws. I'm afraid IE 7 might be just a collection of security fixes, but the announcement about IE 7 is still an important change in policy.
At best, IE 7 has real XHTML support and, most importantly, an essential improvement to CSS support as regards to selectors. These would make it possible to take real steps forward in WWW authoring in the next few years. Around early 2007, optimistically speaking, authors could even stop doing silly things to be compatible with IE 6 flaws.

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