Summary: Internet Explorer 7’s implementation of CSS is complete crap. The only browser that has worse CSS compliance than EI7 is IE 6 which is so abysmally bad that I refuse to code to it any more.

I’m more of a web developer than a designer so my run ins with IE’s incomplete, proprietary, and just generally asinine implementation of CSS over the years have been few and far between. However, now that I am playing more with AJAX and the jQuery libraries, the line between development and design is getting more blurry. I find that it is necessary for me to code CSS files and the more often I do that, the more obvious it is that IE should be taken out to the pasture and shot.

I’m willing to live with IE7’s CSS idiosyncracies because they are less greivous than IE6’s. IE6’s laughable attempt to implement even the most basic design block elements of CSS has eaten up so much of my time that I have decided to officially no longer support it.

Admittedly, this decision is a little easier to make because IE7 has been out long enough that the use of IE6 is somewhere in the 20% range depending on who you listen to, but that’s still 1 in 5 users that are having an abysmal web surfing experience.

Ah well, I’m just one guy. I can’t care about everyone so I’ve decided that those 20% of IE6 users is an easily classified goup that I can drop off my radar forever.

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Tags: Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, Data Formats, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, JQuery, Style sheet, World Wide Web

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