February 3, 2006

Yesterday I busted on IE’s interface, but I do believe that the IE team has their hearts in the right place, at least with regards to how we as web developers will use it. They are aiming for much tighter conformance to the W3C standards for CSS, and most notably fixing the fabled Box Model problem.

A couple of days ago, they published a nice, concise document about what we can expect from the new version in terms of rendering, and they specifically talk about what well-known hacks will not affect IE7. Which is great.

What remains to be seen is where IE7 misses the standard. (And I’m not saying that Microsoft is the only one that misses the standard. CSS development is and will remain a juggling act.)

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