CSS Hacks and IE7
Recently the Microsoft blog announced some of the changes we may expect for the release of the IE7 browser, perhaps in early 2006. It's very good that we are getting this advance notice, because MS is biting the bullet and cleaning up a lot of selector effects that coders are using to hack special rules for Explorer.
Specifically a number of CSS hacks that rely on IEwin's failure to support certain advanced selectors will be failing, because IE7 will introduce IE's support those selectors. In the long run, this is a very good thing for us CSS'ers, since it will give us a lot more power and control over what our CSS does and where. Unfortunately, in the short run it will mean rewriting stylesheets and making alternate provisions for hacking IEwin.
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