Everyone who builds websites…
1. STOP
2. READ THIS
3. SMILE
The Internet Explorer team explain on their weblog how the final version of IE 7 will improve standards support:
In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit as we can, and we will add the critical most-requested features from the standards as well. Though you won’t see (most of) these until Beta 2, we have already fixed the following bugs from PositionIsEverything and Quirksmode:
* Peekaboo bug
* Guillotine bug
* Duplicate Character bug
* Border Chaos
* No Scroll bug
* 3 Pixel Text Jog
* Magic Creeping Text bug
* Bottom Margin bug on Hover
* Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
* IE/Win Line-height bug
* Double Float Margin Bug
* Quirky Percentages in IE
* Duplicate indent
* Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
* 1 px border style
* Disappearing List-background
* Fix width:auto
In addition we’ve added support for the following
* HTML 4.01 ABBR tag
* Improved (though not yet perfect) <object> fallback
* CSS 2.1 Selector support (child, adjacent, attribute, first-child etc.)
* CSS 2.1 Fixed positioning
* Alpha channel in PNG images
* Fix :hover on all elements
* Background-attachment: fixed on all elements not just body
It won’t pass the Acid2 test though – although neither does Firefox 
1. They’ll be a beta test involving regular users with special logons and fancy passwords.
2. The new look features ‘Indian Red’
3. Everything will validate. Everything!
4. Current bugs include a chilling demonstration of Internet Explorer 6’s ‘guillotine’ bug – recently fixed in IE7
5. It’ll knock babble’s socks off.
I suggest browsing fans read this document pretty carefully.
“But I love Firefox! Why do I care about IE7?
If you develop websites, you need to know about IE7″
Update: Favourite quote so far – Web developers have expressed some frustration with certain peculiarities in the behavior of Internet Explorer 6, especially in the areas of standards support.
More politics (stop reading now Bagman) as the issue of ‘faith schools’ came up again. Interesting language from Blair today as he said:
The prime minister said axing Muslim schools would mean ending Catholic, Jewish and Protestant schools too.
“Realpolitik” would prevent such a move, said Mr Blair.
Hardly a strong defence of them then. After all, ‘realpolitik’ prevents us from abolishing nasty people or crime, but that doesn’t mean it’s not something we’d like to do.
Why are ‘faith schools’ bad? Because it’s wrong to base a school around a particular ideology – imagine if we introduced ‘Labour’ schools or ‘Vote Eugene’ schools. You’d have thought that a divine, unwavering belief in a supreme power would be able to survive a few hours a day of not being lectured on why that particular supreme power is really really cool.
However, I’ll go along with the spirit of ‘realpolitik’ and respectfully respect a school to support my faith in the Invisible Pink Unicorn (Blessed Be Her Holy Hooves). What do you mean I’m in a small minority? What – like Jesus against all those Romans? OK OK, fair point. In that case – let’s have a Jedi Knight faith school. (Fourth largest reported religion in the country I’ll have you know.)
Moral values call to Tory leader
Conservative traditionalists have entered the fledgling Tory leadership contest by pushing their next leader to fight liberal attitudes.
A group of “socially conservative” Tory MPs say the party should echo George Bush’s “faith, flag and family” slogan.
Yeeeeeeeeees, that’s a great idea! Go for it! Absolutely concentrate on that, because we could learn a lot from them.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
