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Helpful Stuff For IE7?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forewarned-is-forearmed dept.

Cycloid Torus asks: "IE7 is with us. It asked to be installed as a Critical Update this morning, so I decided to find out more about what was going on and if there are issues to this new and official piece of Windows XP. I found a site of known IE7 issues to be of use. Are there other sites with solid information which can help the wary from getting charred with this upgrade?"

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  1. Consistent CSS... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just modified the CSS file for my website to fix all the crazy bugs in IE6. Loaded up Vista in a VM to take a look at IE7 and all the bugs are still there. Microsoft could have gotten their CSS support to be consistent between versions, or, better yet, correctly display validated XHMTL like everyone else. Honestly, I wish I could kick IE6/7 goodbye.

    1. Re:Consistent CSS... by moranar · · Score: 2, Informative

      Is your doctype strict or transitional? I seem to remember IE 7 will only do "the right thing" if the doctype is stated as strict, so you might want to try that.

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    2. Re:Consistent CSS... by earthbound+kid · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, he's serving XHTML 1.0, which can be served as text/html if necessary, not 1.1, which cannot.

  2. not sure about the install warning by acvh · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The user will see a large window advising that IE7 is available to install, and the user will have three choices; install, don't Install, or install later."

    I installed XP tonight and when I checked for updates there was, in the midst of 60 or so others, an IE7 entry. I unchecked it and was told that I had disabled a "critical update" and was advised to reenable it. I didn't, so I don't know if there would have been this other option he mentioned.