[IxDA Discuss] IE7 vs Firefox

[Scott Bower]

The biggest thing they have fixed from a designer standpoint with IE7 
is this:

Support the alpha channel in PNG images. In fact, I started dropping 
small swf image containers  into pages 10 years ago to get around the 
IE bug. The code hack never really worked well. This has huge 
implications for web applications. We can finally use PNG files! I 
remember when Compuserve came by CNN in 2000 and threatened to sue us 
for using GIF files exported from Photoshop. They went after the 
companies with big web presences to get more bang for their lawsuits.  
It is "technically" illegal (or at last in the past) to use GIF files 
on the web created by Photoshop. IE kept us from converting back then. 
I never could figure out if Microsoft intentionally created this flaw.

Addresses CSS consistency problems.  They checked in the fixes to the 
peekaboo and guillotine bugs documented at positioniseverything.net so 
use of floated elements become more consistent.

Also, the new application development environment around Vista/XAML/WPF 
supports open standards for padding and margins. It works the way it 
supposed to.

scott

On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Sunandini Basu wrote:

> [Please voluntarily trim replies to include only relevant quoted 
> material.]
>
> Hi
> Can anyone tell me how is the IE7 different from Firefox?
> Is there much difference now, that they've moved into tabbed browsing,
> faster page loads and better image rendering?
> Why do we designers spend so much time customzing web pages for IE...
> Soo
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