Making IE Standards Compliant

spin2cool writes "Dean Edwards has taken it upon himself to make Internet Explorer W3C compliant. How? Well, it isn't by patching the application, as you might suspect. He's created a stylesheet, dubbed 'IE7' that uses DHTML to load and parse style sheets into a form that IE can understand. Just include the style sheet in your HTML pages, and things should render correctly. The complexity of the CSS transformations is really amazing and shows off the power of this stuff."

Comments

Re:Useful stylesheets

[kauschovar]

I actually did something similar for a website I created. Using PHP, I searched for 'MSIE' in the USER_AGENT, and if found displayed an alternate HTML page which essentially said 'upgrade your browser n00blar' (I was young when I did this :P), and then listed all alternate web browsers I could think of, not just Mozilla.

Oh yeah, and at the bottom of the page it said 'Your browser will crash in 10 seconds' and of course it worked ;)

Microsoft-compliance ?

[guigouz]

Maybe it's possible to make firefox/mozilla/khtml microsoft-html compliant using css ?

What's up with that comma, dude?

[ReadParse]

MS offcials say that a malisious hacker, is destroying websites around the world, by making them compatible with other web browsers.

Actually neither of them are really needed, but the first one hits the reader like a brick in the head. Don't get me wrong, it's not so much about you. I've seen this kind of extreme comma usage a lot, and I've never understood it. Can somebody provide some insight about this? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this comma is absolutely correctly placed. I'd be thrilled to see the rule that calls for this comma if somebody has it handy.

You also misspelled malicious, but hey, mispellings happen. I don't care. I'm more concerned about the potential rule misunderstanding with the comma, that's all.

Oh, and don't get me started on overzealous usage of "whom" :)

Thanks,
John

I Expect Microsoft to Sue Any Moment Now

[Nom du Keyboard]

I expect Microsoft to sue any moment now for his usage of "IE7", which undoubtedly is a trademark owned by Microsoft. After all, if you can go after "Mike Rowe Soft"...