Details on CSS changes for IE7
As many of us web designers know, IE6 was not good at rendering CSS styling. Most things showed up skewed a bit if not wrong altogether. Most of us have now tested IE7 and have probably noticed a dramatic improvement in the CSS rendering abilities of its style engine. What you may not know is that Microsoft has made over 200 fixes to IE7 leading up to its impending launch this fall. The good/evil thing is that Microsoft will be pushing IE7 as an automatic update through Microsoft Updates.
Bugs they fixed
- All bugs on positioniseverything.net except the “escaping floats” bug (which is planned for the future)
- Peekaboo Bug
- Internet Explorer and Expanding Box Problem
- Quirky Percentages
- Line-height bug
- Border Chaos
- Disappearing List-Background bug
- Guillotine Bug
- Unscrollable Content bug
- Duplicate Characters Bug
- IE and Italics
- Doubled Float-Margin bug
- Duplicate Indent bug
- Three pixel text jog
- Creeping Text bug
- Missing First letter bug
- Phantom box bug
Some of their listed changes are available here. I for one can not wait for this release to be pushed through as it will make designing websites that look good everywhere much easier!