http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

Opinions?

[Fotiman]

Not sure if this violates the TOS. If so, I apologize, but I don't know how else to ask it (and I think that URL is probably stable, that is, not going away any time soon).

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/overview/ [dean.edwards.name]

This looks like a Javascript file that makes it so IE6 (or 5) will behave more correctly regarding CSS. I would like to hear opinions regarding this. Are there any drawbacks?

I was going to use csshover.htc, but found that IE was still a little slow on the hover events, presumably because it's doing some JavaScript on the mouse over and mouse out events. I was wondering if this script would have the same issues?

[Robin_reala]

It will indeed. For personal sites I'd say just use it and don't worry, but for commercial sites I'd spend the time trying to diagnose and fix IE's flaws manually. It works the same way as whatever:hover so ends up using a lot of JS to rewrite sections of the page.

[Elliott Hird]

Well, I'd swear by it if I needed it. Dean Edwards is a very good CSSer and JavaScripter.

[Robin_reala]

Oh, totally. Don't think I was disparaging him - IE7 is a serious achievement. It's just that by it's very nature it does a lot of extra interpreted stuff in IE at page load, which will slow it down regardless.

[Fotiman]

IE7 is a serious achievement

Dean Edwards IE7 that is... not Microsoft's IE7, right? ;)

[Robin_reala]

Now come on, would I say that about MS's IE7? :)

[Elliott Hird]

I haven't used MSIE7 but from what I've seen they've fixed like, 4 ten year old bugs. Big whoop. Oh, and they're making all of your hacks fail too. THANK YOU, MICROSOFT.