Even Microsoft Designers Have Problems With IE

Even Microsoft Designers Have Problems With IE

Mar 29

A user on digg news site, who calls himself ‘pipdipchip’, noticed while snooping around the CSS and sourcecode of Microsoft sites some rather interesting CSS values. In the GeneralStyles CSS of Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Windows Vista, is a comment “fix for the IE 1px-off margin error” and underneath are the values:

* html .StupidIEMarginHack
{
margin-right: 1px;
}

* html .StupidIEWidthHack
{
width: 100%;
}

So it it seems that even Microsoft themselves have to use CSS hacks to accommodate for their incompetant browser. Some claim that IE7 will fix all these problems with CSS and other well known issues but even still I think its unlikely that it will have a great impact. They’ll probably still be playing “catch up” in terms of usability and features with Firefox and the other browsers. Not to mention the fact that it doesn’t look like it will be extensible. Slowly but surely opensource browsers, like Firefox, will prevail (…I hope ).