The most recent post the IEBlog has some hints at what to expect in the IE7 Beta, which is due out pretty soon.
Among a few CSS fixes, it was announced that IE7 will support alpha transparency in the PNG format. This is exciting for Web designers who have maybe resisted using this format because of the lack of support it has had in the browser that holds the largest marketshare. I know I have had several occasions where using a PNG with transparency would have made work much easier, but decided not to because of IE’s lack of support.
Good to see them finally catching up with every other browser available.
Too bad they still aren’t supporting CSS completely. I’d much rather have CSS work the way it’s supposed to before they add support for PNGs.
Maybe I’m missing the point, but how hard is it for them to support the PNG format, or comply with CSS standards? They’ve been working on IE for an awfully long time, and everyone other browser has those two “features”.
I am guessing that Microsoft’s decision to incorporate Internet Explorer with the operating system is making it hard to make the incremental changes that are so easy for stand-alone browsers like Firefox and Opera.
“Good to see them finally catching up with every other browser available.”
Except Lynx :P
But I thought that IE7 wasn’t going to support CSS2…
Oh… it won’t… but they will try to say it does by adding bits and peaces that may or may not work, then bully people into “fixing” there sites to support IE’s “version” of CSS2.
We need an agency simular to CompTIA… only give them the power to fine non-compliant members and use that money to further research new open standards…
Talk about wishfull thinking.
“I know I have had several occasions where using a PNG with transparency would have made work much easier, but decided not to because of IE’s lack of support.”
You use the alpha image loader thing with the js and all IE’s display transparent png’s. (ie mac has some problems but who cares).
IE is a piece of junk and always will be – they have billions of dollars and still can’t make a browser that works correctly. Fuckers.