JeevesBond — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:02:52 +0000

Yes we may well see CSS3 support in IE, we will continue to see standards compliance until Microsoft once again has an overwhelming market share. I predict one of two things will happen at that point:

IE development will once again be halted.
Microsoft will bring in many proprietary extensions that favour their new "Live" suite of online services.

I would expect the latter, locking people into both it's browser and online services. CSS3 looks interesting, hopefully we'll see that implemented before IE's market share gets too big again.

Megan wrote: Emboss and outline!

Uh-oh!

Also web fonts are probably going to give the less experienced designer license to create designs which are completely illegible.

Abhishek Reddy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:58:05 +0000

I'm a little more optimistic about CSS3 support from Microsoft. Once upon a time, much of CSS's innovation was implemented first -- if not only -- by IE. A few of its most demanded features were grown in-house. That is, until things stalled at IE5.

This time the draft is ahead of anything IE has come up with recently, or will in the near future. As far as I can tell, IE7 won't bring much new stuff to the table -- it's still catching up.

So I think IE's poor CSS support is a legacy due, in large part, to its former market position. Now that circumstances aren't in its favour in that regard, I suspect MS will be forced to develop closer to the W3C spec if it wants anything like the features CSS3 offers.

demonhale — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:55:03 +0000

Well I hope people convert sooner to the OS browsers so that CSS 3 will work upright from release. It woul really be good to use those new tags for layout, the hassle fro previous hacks would disappear...

Megan — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:48:01 +0000

Well, you never know. They have said that they plan to release new versions more frequently now. Sounds like they know that the lack of updates really cost them.

demonhale — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:21:32 +0000

I was having my hopes up and felt very excited by the post, and then I came to the bottom part and I was crushed to the ground...