IE7 day one, Bug one

October 19, 2006 | Filed Under Geek, Rant, Work 

We’ve got a site in development that uses lists for navigation bars across the page, code very similar to this…


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" dir="ltr" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>IE 7 Bug</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
ul li {display: inline}
a {background: #ccc; margin: 0 1em 0 1em; padding: 2px; }
a:hover {background: #aaa}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
  <li><a href="#">Some Link Text</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Another Link</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Yet another Link</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Guess what?</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">A box of frogs</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Some Link Text</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Another Link</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Yet another Link</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Guess what?</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">A box of frogs</a></li>  
</ul>
</body>
</html>

In IE7 beta2 and RC1 when using IE’s new ‘page zoom’ feature - if ugly it at least still worked…

…tried it in IE7 Final…

…guess what - they’ve changed the way page zoom works, and now when zoomed, the ‘hit area’ of the links is not in the same place as the link text…

Screenies…

Normal

Zoomed

~@!*%@!rs…

Tags: Geek, Rant, Work

Comments

8 Responses to “IE7 day one, Bug one”

  1. Barry Price on October 19th, 2006 4:19 pm

    More to the point, WTF is “Tiscali 10.0″?

  2. jim on October 19th, 2006 4:27 pm

    something stuck in my registry that I havn’t bothered to clean out…

    …you’re the second person to point that out this week, so…

    
1. Click Start.
2. Click Run.
3. Type
rundll32.exe iedkcs32.dll,Clear
and then click OK.
4. Restart Internet Explorer.

  3. Phil on October 19th, 2006 5:45 pm

    Sadly they’ve never gotten the one thing I like about v 7, actually right:https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/07/526805.aspx

    I contacted them back in spring, and got a reply from the Manager in charge of the unit dedicated to the Zoom function saying he’d get right on it.

    Obviously he hasn’t managed yet!

  4. Barry Price on October 19th, 2006 11:44 pm

    Bug two :-)

  5. randal540 on October 26th, 2006 3:35 pm

    how do i zoom in firefox?

  6. jim on October 26th, 2006 3:40 pm

    you can’t ‘zoom’ in firefox, as far as I’m aware…

  7. brokencow on October 26th, 2006 8:45 pm

    you hold control and scroll mouse to zoom in and out.

  8. jim on October 26th, 2006 9:14 pm

    That only increases or decreases the text size, we’re talking about total page zoom, graphics, layout, text, the lot.

    like opera 9…

    …nice piccies btw… :-)

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