IE7 Beta 2 Preview: Send in your bug reports
Originally, I was on the fence about installing the latest beta but now that I have, I'm glad I did. I've already uncovered one rendering bug and there will no doubt be many more. At this point, I'm recommending that everybody install it and report anything that does not render correctly. The only way it'll get fixed is if they know about it.
Here is what I've uncovered so far:
- padding no longer adds to the width of a box when position is set to absolute. Example, a
divwithposition:absolute;width:300px;padding:10px;will render smaller than a container withposition:relative;width:300px;padding:10px; - min-height, max-height, min-width, and max-width still don't appear to be supported
:hoverseems to be in but:focusis not.
Feel free to mention or link to anything you find, including validating what I've run into.
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I'd rather have people did testing on Opera, Safari and Firefox. Or even better, work on testsuites that can be re-used by any browser company. It's hard for me to understand why people "like" to do regression testing on Internet Explorer 7, but don't really contribute to testsuites like the one from CSS 2.1 or so. Or the SVG public test suite, et cetera.
I've not been able to get
:hoverto work, but you're right aboutmin-width.This rocks.
Anne, chances are it's because IE7 will wind up replacing IE6 as the dominant 'regular joe' browser. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean nobody does.
I do agree that more multiplatform test suites should be developed, though.
Someday, I need to buy Windwos to keep up with you guys. Untill then.. Big thanks to you.
Aargh - They fixed height to work as it should. Elements with a fixed height no longer expand to accomodate their contents should said contents be larger than the defined height of their containing element.
Put that together with no support for min-height, max-height, min-width and max-width, and you have a headache on your hands.
Aargh!!!!!!!
Jonathan, I've come across a very annoying rendering bug with the <label> element that you might find interesting. Read more here:
http://www.bogglethemind.com/index.php?itemid=14
Well, the UI just doesn't work (the button order breaks several conventions, and it is definitely worse to use than former IE versions).
Though I "tested" some pages yet, I did not document specific bugs - because it's just a Beta, and as already pointed out, there still is a lot to do. In certain cases, IE7 shows quite strange behavior.
This is not really a bug, but still interesting. There is a CSS hack that works for all versions of Internet Explorer, including IE7. You can find out about it here:
http://www.ibloomstudios.com/article7/
Firstly, yes, the UI is horrid - the 'classic menu' actually has to be selected before 'File', 'Edit' options are available. Isn't that a fundamental usability error?
Anyway. Again, technically not a bug, but the zoom feaure increases/decreases most but not all page elements - try it on this page and you'll see what I mean.
As for min-width etc....Aargh indeed.
I can't get http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/beastly/ to render correctly in IE7; menu panel overlaps other panels obscuriing some info.
Works fine in Firefox, Netscape and Opera.
My CSS menu is completely misrendered. Something is happening with padding or margin that displays fine in IE6, firefox, and the rest.
http://www.sixbulletsmovie.com
It seems that the padding/margin errors are rendered fine if I use a border... Unfortunately this means that if you want two items directly next to each other you must have 2px of border between them.
If I define relative or absolute I have similar but slightly different positioning problems!
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