Background Images in SCROLLBARS

BESIDES "COLORED SCROLLBARS" - IS THIS THE NEXT LIKELY UPDATE

[usa1]

[prediction]

Extending a BACKGROUND IMAGE into the "face" or the "track" part of the Scrollbar seems like the next likely CSS update in Internet Explorer.

[DrDoc]

Not likely... If anything, the ability to spcify a transparent track color...

[Farix]

Extending a BACKGROUND IMAGE into the "face" or the "track" part of the Scrollbar seems like the next likely CSS update in Internet Explorer.

Goodness, I hope not. I much rather they fix their poor CSS support instead of branching out with more useless proprietary features.

[DrDoc]

fix their poor CSS support

You mean, implement CSS support? :)

[Hester]

Internet Explorer is dead. Well, version 6 at least. All that remains is the forthcoming Service Pack which will add a pop-up ad blocker.

IE7 will (possibly) offer page flips, a window that can be resized along with the contents (like Opera's zoom but much finer). Since it'll be a rewrite of the rendering engine, I wouldn't expect too much. Graphical tricks can be achieved as they'll be built in to the next version of Windows (Longhorn). Beside that it'll probably be even worse than IE6 for what it can do initially. But who knows.

Background images in borders - that's what we want. Or the W3C to implement image rotation and other fx, like IE6's filters. That way you could define the corner of a border, like a picture frame, and simply rotate the image to get the other 3 corners without loading any more images.

[humpingdan]

were not being serious here are we?

images in scroll bars?

yeah cuz thats whats my page is missing!

big up DrDoc

[Hester]

Just think - advertisers could put text in there. Or animated banners. More revenue space! Implement it now! :-)

[RammsteinNicCage]

*waves bye-bye to usability*

Jennifer

[Hester]

Thinks: you could put a picture of a scrollbar in there to confuse people! :)

[DrDoc]

Technically IE6 isn't dead... Microsoft has promised to fix all outstanding bugs, and that includes some CSS stuff too. For example, rendering

position:fixed

properly. I'm not having too high expectations as far as Microsoft completing the CSS implementation, and even less hopes about them extending the CSS implementation.

As far as IE7... IE7 won't come for at least 5 years. They haven't been working much on IE at all, and the version that comes shipped with Longhorn is IE6.5 (which is essentially IE6 with SP1, plus a modified rendering engine and added search abilities).

[Hester]

Technically IE6 isn't dead... Microsoft has promised to fix all outstanding bugs, and that includes some CSS stuff too. For example, rendering position:fixed properly.

Is that definite? To me that would be filed under "adding new features", since (AFAIK) position:fixed isn't broken, just not implemented.

I'd be surprised if they do anything to improve or add to the CSS in IE6.

As far as IE7... IE7 won't come for at least 5 years. They haven't been working much on IE at all, and the version that comes shipped with Longhorn is IE6.5 (which is essentially IE6 with SP1, plus a modified rendering engine and added search abilities).

This is news to me. I had thought IE7 would be shipped with Longhorn, which I believe is due at the earliest in 2005. In that case, they'd better get on with truly fixing IE6!

[DrDoc]

position:fixed is broken...
But, I doubt CSS bugs is on their list of bugs. I only think they will fix security holes...

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