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I can’t tell you how ecstatic I am right now!
I have finally found a reliable way to force Internet Explorer to behave as it should and display web pages the way they were intended! No more worrying about IE hacks or seperate CSS files, no more conditional statements to keep track of throughout your code.
Just in case you’re wondering what the heck I’m going on about - It’s an amazing set of javascript codes that control IE to the nth degree,essentially forcing it to behave like IE7.
Written by Dean Edwards, IE7 is simple to implement and covers a wide range of IE faults.
Ok so it’s a partial victory - but a victory nonetheless!
My favorite features of this script?
First and foremost, the ability to finally use tranaparent PNG in a design! Yay! There are a million and one ways that have been developed to do this and none seem to work right in specific instances. They either depend on certain browser bugs which could get fixed at any moment or use filters that are almost always disabled on most browsers.
So now you can design with transparency all you want, a plus side being that the file sizes are usually quite small when saving as a PNG.
Supports overflow:visible
Think negative margins should be allowed? You’re preaching to the choir here! One of the best things about adhering to the w3c is that the box model actually works the way it should! This script allows a few different CSS3 techniques dependant on the box model working correctly to, well… work correctly! So fear min/max height no more, enjoy either standard or quirks mode or even gasp! use fixed positioning!
Supports the Cascading in Cascading Style Sheets
You know, I used to wonder why they totally disregarded the major idea behind css. It’s call CASCADING style sheets for a reason right? How many hours have you spent trying to figure out how to control the look of your sites in both firefox/mozilla/anything else with the extreme variations seen in Internet Explorer?
I have literally had a few sites where I opened it in Interent Explorer for the first time and went Oh dear, I’m not going to be able to fix this one”
But now we can put this all behind us! We can breathe easier knowing that with one simple tool we are at least a leg up on the competition and we’ll save ourselves a bunch or time and headache.
If you haven’t already, visit Dean Edwards’ site now and check out IE7 now!
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