IE 7 is coming soon and it doesn't look good

[yaniv73]

hi all

all of my sites that i did until now are compatible for IE6 , FF, Netscape
and safari.

the word on the street that IE7 is coming soon....

my friend i checked site on the IE7 release candidate and it DOES'T LOOK good.

all of my clients want me to do the changes and i think it will take a while


i will be happy to hear you thoughts ideas about it.

[Murray *ACE*]

Build your sites so that they validate and you will be safe from most such
issues.

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"yaniv73" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hi all
>
> all of my sites that i did until now are compatible for IE6 , FF,
> Netscape
> and safari.
>
> the word on the street that IE7 is coming soon....
>
> my friend i checked site on the IE7 release candidate and it DOES'T LOOK
> good.
>
> all of my clients want me to do the changes and i think it will take a
> while
>
>
> i will be happy to hear you thoughts ideas about it.
>

[T.Pastrana - 4Level]

Expounding on what Murray said ...

If you build your pages with valid css for modern broswers, most likely IE7
will be fine with it.

However, just a guess without seeing your code, what's probably happening is
IE7 is picking up certain fixes etc.. that are addressing issues for the
earlier broken versions of IE.

What you will need to do is create a separate stylesheet for earlier version
of IE to fix any defeciencies these browsers display according to your css
implementation and hide this stylesheet from IE7 with a conditional comment.
This comment would be placed "after" your "valid" css in your page(s).

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link href="ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->

Then, when the time comes when the earlier version are no longer of
significant relevance this stylesheet can simply be removed, yet it will
cause no harm if left in place.

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...Trent Pastrana
[url]www.fourlevel.com[/url]






"Murray *ACE*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
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> Build your sites so that they validate and you will be safe from most such
> issues.
>
> --
> Murray --- ICQ 71997575
> Adobe Community Expert
> (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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> "yaniv73" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:eg9598$n65$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>> hi all
>>
>> all of my sites that i did until now are compatible for IE6 , FF,
>> Netscape
>> and safari.
>>
>> the word on the street that IE7 is coming soon....
>>
>> my friend i checked site on the IE7 release candidate and it DOES'T LOOK
>> good.
>>
>> all of my clients want me to do the changes and i think it will take a
>> while
>>
>>
>> i will be happy to hear you thoughts ideas about it.
>>

>
>

[Al Sparber- PVII]

"Murray *ACE*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
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> Build your sites so that they validate and you will be safe from most
> such issues.

That's sadly not the case with many CSS-positioned layouts, especially
ones that include floats, blocked link lists, etc. This page might help.
The first 2 fixes are product-specific, but the third one should be
sufficient to make your "valid code" theory spot-on perfect :-)

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=181[/url]


--
Al Sparber
PVII
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"Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling
mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs
are scheduled for next Tuesday".

[Murray *ACE*]

Those are good to have. Any chance that these things will be fixed by
release?

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"Al Sparber- PVII" <hiding@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "Murray *ACE*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
> news:eg9doo$26f$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>> Build your sites so that they validate and you will be safe from most
>> such issues.

>
> That's sadly not the case with many CSS-positioned layouts, especially
> ones that include floats, blocked link lists, etc. This page might help.
> The first 2 fixes are product-specific, but the third one should be
> sufficient to make your "valid code" theory spot-on perfect :-)
>
> [url]http://www.projectseven.com/support/answers.asp?id=181[/url]
>
>
> --
> Al Sparber
> PVII
> [url]http://www.projectseven.com[/url]
>
> "Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain
> road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that repairs are
> scheduled for next Tuesday".
>
>
>
>
>

[Al Sparber- PVII]

"Murray *ACE*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
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> Those are good to have. Any chance that these things will be fixed by
> release?

Doubt it. Perhaps there will be a 7.1 release in a couple of months.

[Deaf Web Designer]

All is true, and to view on M$IE 7, as in with legacy versions, there are known
some kind of brilliant hacking workarounds solution in CSS code to make it
work. It is matter of an effort, time and patience to make it work. Most
importantly of all, including as other experts have said, important to test,
test and test just to make sure it behaves nicely and cooperating with any
browsers no matter what.

However, there will be some times for some small 'lil hiccups along the way,
where we have no control over per se.