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What do you think?
What's one of your favorite features you hope to see in IE 7?
What's one of the most annoying bugs you hope to see fixed?
To get started, how about if it will start rendering
[3]border: 1px dotted black;[/3]And, how about that
[3]position: fixed;[/3]
2. I would like to see more standards support and less (or NO) attention on proprietary new stuff.
These wishes don't feel like something that the MS corporate culture would create -- this kind of direction would surprise me very much.
Come on Redmond, please surprise me.
In line with that, I just hope they continue to move as close to a full CSS2 implementation as possible.
I would also like to see an option for saving forms along with the user-entered data.
My favorite "bug" is the way that IE 6, in strict mode, handles the body element as opposed to the html (documentElement) when the contents of the body element does not fill the entire viewport. I find it hard to even explain the strange things it does.
Other than that, I'm pretty well satisfied with IE. For writing scripted pages, it's the standard-bearer, that's for sure. Even when I code wrong, it seems to sense what it is I'm trying to do.
I hope they keep the interface simple, as before. And I hope they don't succumb to implementing anything trivial just because it's part of a W3C standard somewhere. (Like adding a menu item for Alternate Style Sheets as per the HTML 4 recommendation.)
No multiple document interface, either. Let the power users move to another browser if they need more, I've got enough support problems as is.
And I definitely agree with OnTheEdge -- a button to block unrequested popup windows would make the browsing experience that much better for most people. I myself use a popup blocker called "Free Surfer", and while it has been tremendously helpful, that sort of add on program is not necessarily going to be installed by the average person. So I'd say to MS...... please build it in!
win_h = document.documentElement.clientHeight
1/ Besides more standards support I'd like to see it do all of things I like about Mozilla. Popup killer, Tab browsing, mouse gesters and speed.
2/ Image rendering issues
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Specifically things like this
<html>
<title></title>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="an_image.jpg" alt="alt info" width="50" height="50" id="img-1">
<script type='text/javascript'>
alert('From within a table:\nHeight = '+document.images['img-1'].height+'\nWidth = '+
document.images['img-1'].width+'\nAlt = '+
document.images['img-1'].alt+'\nSource = '+
document.images['img-1'].src)
</script>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script type='text/javascript'>
alert('From outside of a table:\nHeight = '+document.images['img-1'].height+'\nWidth = '+
document.images['img-1'].width+'\nAlt = '+
document.images['img-1'].alt+'\nSource = '+
document.images['img-1'].src)
</script>
</body>
</html>
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What I'd like:
* option to block onload-popups
* tabbed browsing
* better support for CSS2
* no image toolbar
* support for <blink> ;-)
edit: added URL
I hope they fix the missing graphics and styles bug. It's hit me again today. Suddenly pages are without images and CSS! Nothing I can do can restore them. I've switched over to Mozilla instead.
René.
Csaba Gabor
What will the next version of IE bring?
Instability, crashes and security flaws galore until a few patches after SP1 :)
Allen
There is probably more but all I really want is for my valid XHTML home page to render properly in IE. Is that too much to ask?
Pop-up window control.
Pause/Resume downloads.
Enable DOCTYPE's to be recognised on lines other than the first.
Support for <BLINK>. Well why not? I still see it used today.
Skins.
The XP browser icons across *all* platforms.
Support for media="projection"?
100% CSS2 support.
Support for <abbr>.
More fonts. (So we can go beyond Verdana etc safe in the knowledge all IE7 users have them.)
Everything else that makes Opera and Mozilla so cool. :)
