Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), released in October 2006, is
a big improvement with regard to Web standards over IE6, and I
had hoped that there would be rapid switchover from IE6 to IE7.
However, according to thecounter.com, IE6 was still used by about
50 percent of all Web surfers as of July 2007.
Even Today, IDWIMIE
Anyway, as a result of IE6??™s refusal to die a rapid death, I still
sometimes have to mention a CCS feature and tell you IDWIMIE
(pronounced id-wimmy)??”It Doesn??™t Work In Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
For some of Internet Explorer??™s (and other older browsers) shortcomings,
there are workarounds known as hacks??”the nonstandard
use of CSS to fool particular browsers into seeing or ignoring certain
styles. It??™s tedious and time-consuming to create hacks, but as long
as IE6 is around, the hacks must continue.
For us Web site designers and the visitors to the sites we create,
Web standards offer the prospect of sites displaying and behaving
consistently in every browser, on every platform. We??™re not there
yet, but the days of every browser supporting a different feature set,
with all the resultant inconsistencies that can make cross-browser/
cross-platform Web development slow and frustrating, are, it seems,
almost over. Web standards are clearly here to stay.
Every so often I??™ll mention CSS2 or
CSS3.
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