19-10-2006, 01:11 PM
I had a shock when I tried to ftp some webpage edits to my host for the first time with IE7; it said "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"! I used IE6 from my on W98 computer but then I discovered that there is a facility in IE7 under the Page tab to "Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer". The problem is, you can't go straight there from a Favorit like you used to, you have to get the error message first and then go to the Page tab. A slower and annoying process.
I've already discovered some things IE7 won't do.
Firefox often doesn't show a background-color or image when the div has floated elements inside it; they "hang down" below the div without a background. IE7 now does the same but the clearfix:after hack for Firefox does not work in IE7. I never use this anyway; I use a full-width nil-height clearer div
<div class="noborder" style="clear: both; width: 100%; height: 0; line-height: 0; font-size: 0;"> </div>
which always works even if it is a bit of extra code.
I had some hover popups with some text under the enlarged popup image. I find that in IE7 each word is on a different line. I have now linked the words with so they form one long unbreakable word but then discovered that a hyphen breaks the word into another line and I haven't found an answer to this yet except to omit the hyphen.
I've already discovered some things IE7 won't do.
Firefox often doesn't show a background-color or image when the div has floated elements inside it; they "hang down" below the div without a background. IE7 now does the same but the clearfix:after hack for Firefox does not work in IE7. I never use this anyway; I use a full-width nil-height clearer div
<div class="noborder" style="clear: both; width: 100%; height: 0; line-height: 0; font-size: 0;"> </div>
which always works even if it is a bit of extra code.
I had some hover popups with some text under the enlarged popup image. I find that in IE7 each word is on a different line. I have now linked the words with so they form one long unbreakable word but then discovered that a hyphen breaks the word into another line and I haven't found an answer to this yet except to omit the hyphen.