Comments on: Getting Your Blog Ready for Internet Explorer 7 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Wed, 22 May 2013 05:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pushing Internet Explorer 7 « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-889845 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:56:49 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-889845 [...] Getting Your Blog Ready for Internet Explorer 7 [...]

]]> By: Internet Explorer 8 Getting Ready for You : The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-866685 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:44:26 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-866685 [...] claim that all IE hacks could be done away with to get ready for IE7 was a joke. Removing them made your site break with older versions of Internet [...]

]]> By: Jakob E http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-60521 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:45:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-60521 I don’t see the problem

IE7 is far better than previous versions of IE when it comes
to W3C compliance. It’s only a problem if you dug yourself
a hole making your designs rely on IE or created a mess using
css hacks.

You should always design with common standards in mind and not
rely on browser bugs to fix your problems. This is exactly what
you do when using css hacks.

What you should do is:
Start by creating your design in accordance with the W3C semantics
both (X)Html and Css.

Then fix the IE problems using conditional comments to control the
includes of overruling styles. Conditional comments are available
from IE5… Prior versions are – in my opinion – obsolete.

Best, Jakob E

Links:
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CSS validatior:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Markup validator:
http://validator.w3.org/

More on conditional comments:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

]]> By: K2 error in IE7 at Serendipity http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-56120 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:01:21 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-56120 [...] Getting Your Blog Ready for Internet Explorer 7 [...]

]]> By: Serendipity » K2 error http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-56116 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:46:18 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-56116 [...] Getting Your Blog Ready for Internet Explorer 7 [...]

]]> By: CT Biz Blogs » Blog Archive » Internet Explorer 7.0 has arrived http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-53416 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:07:14 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-53416 [...] In related IE7 news, Lorelle VanFossen is writing a nice series on “Getting Your Blog Ready for Internet Explorer 7.” This is a more techy view, talking about CSS, among other things, but if you’re a geek or geek-wannabe like me, this is for you! by Sabine @ 7:05 am. Filed under Blogging tips, Blogging Issues   [link for this post] [...]

]]> By: Sugar http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-51302 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:16:04 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-51302 No, no, and no.

I don’t agree with this. Why should we designers worry about our themes’ compatibility with IE7? Isn’t it their job to deal with backwards compatibility? (provided that our code is supposed to work)

I’m quite sure now, the browser wars never really ended. They just passed to a new phase, I’m guessing the cold war.

]]> By: Are WordPress Themes and Plugins Ready for Internet Explorer 7? « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-50775 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:44:00 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-50775 [...] The article continues with a list of some of the changes and new features IE7 will have, which include updated CSS behavior and fixes of many IE browser hacks. As I wrote recently in “Getting Your Blog Ready for Internet Explorer 7″, IE7 will ignore your old browser hacks, but how it responds to all CSS instructions is still a little less clear. [...]

]]> By: zooplah http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-49507 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:07:49 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-49507 Personally, my blog works far better in IE7RC than in IE6. In IE6, it’s a total mess and I’m currently disabling stylesheets through JavaScript so that it will at least be readable.

Not that it working in IE6 really matters that much anyway. I’m not making money from it or anything, so visitors will just have to accept whatever capricious decisions I make concerning it.

]]> By: Aaron http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-48306 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:11:11 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/getting-your-blog-ready-for-internet-explorer-7/#comment-48306 Really you can never completely abandon the hacks. Even after the 2 to 5 years there will still be people who use antique browsers. Because of this post I glanced at my browser statistics and I was shocked to find that someone had IE 3 and Netscape 3 still. IE5 and 5.5 (which are about 8 years old) are still used frequently enough that commercial sites have to work for them. While I get 10 times as many visitors with IE 6 than I do with either IE 5 and 5.5, with trends the way they are we have a good 4 – 5 years before we can even consider removing hacks. Of course this is assuming we aren’t forced to create more and more as newer browsers can do more.

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