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Hmm IE7 for webmasters?

It wouldn't fix any css headaches unless you're only developing pages for personal consumption. The general viewing public is not going to be installing this.
 
It's not a replacement browser for IE. It's a javascript file made specifically for IE that the webmaster includes in his/her code. This javascript "updates" IE to use webstandards by parsing the CSS into a form that IE can render.
 
Originally posted by: kamper
It wouldn't fix any css headaches unless you're only developing pages for personal consumption. The general viewing public is not going to be installing this.
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The general public don't need to install anything. You just add a Javascript just as you would to any other web page. You can drastically reduce CSS hacks with this! It's pretty much transparent to a normal user.

Originally posted by: igowerf
It's not a replacement browser for IE. It's a javascript file made specifically for IE that the webmaster includes in his/her code. This javascript "updates" IE to use webstandards by parsing the CSS into a form that IE can render.
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I know that. 🙂 I'm just wondering if anyone in this board has used this and what's their opinion of it.
 
Originally posted by: screw3d
Originally posted by: kamper
It wouldn't fix any css headaches unless you're only developing pages for personal consumption. The general viewing public is not going to be installing this.
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The general public don't need to install anything. You just add a Javascript just as you would to any other web page. You can drastically reduce CSS hacks with this! It's pretty much transparent to a normal user.

Originally posted by: igowerf
It's not a replacement browser for IE. It's a javascript file made specifically for IE that the webmaster includes in his/her code. This javascript "updates" IE to use webstandards by parsing the CSS into a form that IE can render.
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I know that. 🙂 I'm just wondering if anyone in this board has used this and what's their opinion of it.
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I know that you know. 🙂 I was explaining to kamper that it's not something that needs to be installed.
 
Hmm. That's awesome. And those Pure CSS menus they use rock.

Definitely gonna be using this in the future (pending platform testing, etc).
 
Quick impression of it is that it works 85% of the time. I've found a few discrepencies so far, but not many.

I like it so far 🙂
 
Whoops 😱 thanks for setting me straight (made a pretty nice advertisement for the thing too 🙂)
 
I'm looking into to using it on some upcoming projects for my job. If you're running a standards-based, personal site, it's a no-brainer...IE7 is perfect for your needs. Commercial sites are trickier; not sure if I'll end up being able to use it, but I'm definitely gonna try.
 
Originally posted by: Kasper4christ
so.. explain to the layman
(me)
what this does...for the end user..
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IE6 doesn't adhere to parts of the CSS standard very well, this javascript is so that a person can make a standard-complient website.

Basicly you setup your website to use browser detection to detect the user's browser. If your scripting figures out that the person is using Internet Explorer then it will send webpages that use these javascripts to redo parts of the website into a form that IE can understand.

You can look at it sort of like using java scripting to emulate parts of the CSS standard that IE just can't handle correctly. Otherwise you run into headaches trying to make multiple versions of the same website to suite individual browsers.

(CSS is "cascading style sheets", it's a advanced way to make a webmaster's job easier by creating standard rules on formatting for a website. It makes it easier to create nice layouts and create uniformaty.) better definition here

For the end user it doesn't realy mean a whole lot, unless your making fancy websites yourself. You much better off using a better browser, but the reality of the situation is that most people still use Internet Explorer and you have to compinsate for it.
 
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