Microsoft's CSS Plans for IE 7 Draw Cheers, Jeers

Although it won't fix most of its CSS-related bugs until Beta 2, Microsoft is going public with what it expects to deliver, standards-wise, by the time Internet Explorer 7.0 ships. Acid2 test compliance isn't on the short list.

After remaining mum for months over the extent to which it plans to support the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standard with its forthcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 browser, Microsoft has gone public with its plans.

Late last week, Internet Explorer lead program manager Chris Wilson posted to his blog a list of fixes, many of them CSS-related, that Microsoft is planning for IE 7.0.ADVERTISEMENT
CSS is a style-sheet language that allows developers to attach font, spacing, speech and other information to structured HTML documents and XML applications. CSS separates the presentation style of documents from document content with the goal of simplifying Web authoring and site maintenance. The most recently approved CSS standard is CSS 2.0