Additional details about IE 7.0 released

Posted April 24, 2005

Rotheblog Internet Explorer 7.0
I was surfing this morning and I came across a follow up to the Internet Explorer 7.0 beta release article from last month.

This announcement basically states what the developers are working on currently, the two most important aspects of 7.0 beta being better support for Alpha transparency and better CSS consistency including floats. They are also working on correcting to major well documented problems, called the “peekaboo” and “guillotine” bugs. I don’t think I have actually ever ran into the peekaboo bug, but I have run into the guillotine bug.

The guillotine bug involves as quoted from the referenced website, “The Guillotine is a bug that chops off the bottom part of floated elements when certain links are hovered over.” Basically, what this meant for me, is adding a clearing object after the floated object, and the main container. Fortunately this whole idea was fixed when the technique for cleaing elements without using structural markup was developed. Either way, let’s hope that IE fixes their stuff.

Go ahead and read the announcement on Microsoft’s site for more details.