Are you familiar with the CSS 2 properties?
Saturday August 30, 2008
The CSS 2 specification gives us things like border colors for specific sides, first-child pseudo classes, and a bunch of Aural Style Sheet properties. If you're not using CSS 2, you're missing out on a lot of well supported features and functionalities.
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Not really - I can never use them thanks to IE, so have never really found a use for them, never been able to practise them and never get to know them. Same reason as I find little use in looking forward to CSS3 - if IE8’s support for CSS3 is as reliable as IE7’s for CSS2 (if it all) there’s little or no point in looking forward to it. Same old story over and over. Go Firefox!
I agree. It seems pointless. As if W3C standards are a waste of time. I seriously hope that things change soon. Microsoft has decided that they can do what ever they want because they dominate the OS market. I work for a very large corporation and over 50% of our clients are using IE6. It would be easier if most people were now using IE7, but they are not. Hopefully, because of contracts that Microsoft has with computer companies, Vista now being a requirement, we can all be a little more relieved that IE7 will be default (for a while anyway).
Even though IE7 is not perfect, it’s much better for now. It seems as though we’re still in the friggin’ early 90’s when Netscape and IE were struggling to gain the popularity.
Look, I understand playing the game of chess, but I believe that Microsoft will eventually have to come to terms with the fact that their browser has such a significant impact on the web developers. More and more people are learning how to develop websites and are seeing the problem with cross-browser compatibility. Microsoft obviously does not care.
I also know that other browsers (such as FireFox) are not perfect, but they are much more compliant. IE7 is a step forward, but it’s going to be the same thing over and over again in the future. When W3C makes/additions modifications to the standards, Microsoft will brush some of those off and go with their own whim.
Microsoft says “Screw You!” to web accessibility. Look at the OLPC movement (One Laptop Per Child). One of the only ways to make them affordable was to have Linux as the OS. Microsoft DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU!
Okay, I’m done now…..
Sorry for the rant
KenBW2: While, as you and Jason say, IE 6 is still widely used and doesn’t support all the CSS 2 properties, it does support the majority of them. Have you looked at the properties that are part of the CSS 2 specification?
The main ones that IE 6 doesn’t support (and IE 7 for that matter) have to do with embedded content. Microsoft has a fundamental difference of opinion regarding generated content from the rest of the CSS working group. But that didn’t stop them from implementing most of the other properties.
You might be surprised at which properties are actually CSS 2 and not CSS 1 - you’re probably using some of them already.