Making IE Standards Compliant

spin2cool writes "Dean Edwards has taken it upon himself to make Internet Explorer W3C compliant. How? Well, it isn't by patching the application, as you might suspect. He's created a stylesheet, dubbed 'IE7' that uses DHTML to load and parse style sheets into a form that IE can understand. Just include the style sheet in your HTML pages, and things should render correctly. The complexity of the CSS transformations is really amazing and shows off the power of this stuff."

Making IE Standards compliant?

[Zone-MR]

I'm sure IE 6.05.1 will feature a small modification which happens to cause this fix to stop working. ;)

All that's missing

[blirp]

All that's missing now, is a stylesheet that'll close all remaining security holes... :*)

Useful stylesheets

[plams]

I think I'd personally be more interested in a stylesheet that redirects IE browsers to www.mozilla.org/ [mozilla.org] :) Or even better: crashes them.

All he has to do now

[maroberts]

Is ponder how to get over the Slashdotting of his site.

I'm sure the CSS is a work of technical art; seeing it would be even better.

Re:The site seems down?

[Anonymous Coward]

A link to technical content was posted on Slashdot's front page. Do you really need a confirmation?

They're going to completely rewrite IE?

[EmagGeek]

Wow... who woulda thunk it?

Re:Gone with only 3 comments

[Anonymous Coward]

on the root of the site (http://dean.edwards.name/) it says:
* This is my site
* for my personal use
* running on my machine
* in my kitchen!

jesus christ, someone create a mirror before his computer blows up from being slashdotted.

Re:Shows the power of IE

[minus9]

but this hack really does show the power of IE

The power of IE is that it's broken but it may be possible to fix it?

I have a powerful car for sale if you're interested.

Re:Making IE Standards compliant?

[Openstandards.net]

I have found that the DoNotUseIE.patch file has upgraded it to 100% open standards compliance, and this cannot be overridden by any future version of IE or other Microsoft extensions.

Re:Useful stylesheets

[Dashing Leech]

Or even better: crashes them.

That doesn't require style sheets, just normal webpages.

Id say

[222]

Judging by the loading lag, and eventual time out hes managed to make his webserver IIS compliant also ;)

IE part of the Longhorn

[SailfishMac]

The shear horror!!!


G5's Folding@home for Team Mac OS X #1971 [stanford.edu]

more than enough bandwidth to cover it...

[Anonymous Coward]

...thems sound lik fightin' words :)

yehaw boys!!

Re:IE part of the Longhorn

[SailfishMac]

Guess this means the new Microsoft mail program will also be part of the Longhorn.

No WONDER Gates wants to charge for emails!


G5's Folding for Team Mac OS X #1971 [stanford.edu]

Re:firefox

[tunah]

Slashdot isn't valid HTML, so it doesn't _have_ a correct rendering ;-)

MS releases patch to fix Security bug in IE

[peragrin]

MS released a patch today to fix a major Security Bug in IE today. MS offcials say that a malisious hacker, is destroying websites around the world, by making them compatible with other web browsers. We at MS can abolutely not have any competion, so we are funding a $1 billion reward to the person who finds this man and breaks his even hack. We would do it ourselves but all 80,000 of our developers are busy trying to get longhorn out by 2010.

Re:Shows the power of IE

[Anonymous Coward]

Why does every post, which starts with the statement "This will probably get modded down", "Mod me down, but..." or similar get +5 Insightful? Reverse psychology, anyone? Mod me down, but that's the truth.

Re:All he has to do now

[Gabrill]

Umm . . . Sourceforge?

Re:Sheeesh...slashdotted already.

[mirko]

Here's a cheap one... [ebay.com]
Mind you, it might not fit your home.

Re:Useful stylesheets

[Phidoux]

Yeah! Doez enyone no off a goot spel checing stile sheet?

Well folks, it's working already!

[Pflipp]

I open the page in my IE browser, and it says "The page cannot be displayed", as would be the expected reaction for this browser. Tonight I'll check on Mozilla at home, I'm sure it will render correctly then! :-)

Re:Making IE Standards compliant?

[I confirm I'm not a]

My problem with this patch is its name - it was DoNotUseIE.phoenix, then DoNotUseIE.bird, now - apparently - its DoNotUseIE.patch. Enough already!

;)

No wonder it's /.'ed...

[lortho]

Quoted from the main page of the site:

• This is my site
• for my personal use
• running on my machine
• in my kitchen!

I imagine his ISP's going to want to have a few words with him about bandwidth usage... ;)

Re:Microsoft should hire him

[l0wland]

"Microsoft should hire him..."

There's a greater possibility that Microsoft will pay him to STFU.

Wow!

[dizzl]

"An error occurred while loading http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/intro/: Connection to host dean.edwards.name is broken"

Seems to make Konqueror more IE compliant too!

Corporate Business Strategy

[SeaDour]

Did you hear? McDonald's heard about this move by Microsoft, and was inspired to imitate their strategy. McDonald's is now pushing through the Department of Agriculture to add "Big Mac" and "Chicken Nuggets" to the Food Pyramid, placing them just below the highly-coveted "Dairy Products" block. McDonald's argues that since such a huge percentage of the population is eating their food, everyone should consider their products a nutritional standard.

Let me get this straight...

[orthancstone]

MS should pay $1 billion for preventing this guy from distributed this, eh? So...

That'd be the easiest money /. members ever made...the site is already slashdotted!
:P

Re:Welcome to 2004

[rudy_wayne]

>> IE is the suck.

This should be displayed whenever IE starts up.

Re:Google cache

[PhxBlue]

It benefits the site owner by having reduced bandwidth costs and it also benefits Slashdot as we can read the articles.

At least, for all 20 Slashdotters who do read the articles. . . :)

Re:Fixed in nightlies

[spuke4000]

I clicked the 'More major changes since 0.8 here [squarefree.com]' link to see what was coming in the next version and saw something funny about it preventing users from 'accidentally' changing their wallpaper to porn they are downloading. On further investigation I found [mozilla.org] this tid-bit in Bugzilla:

------- Additional Comment #4 From Jesse Ruderman 2002-12-08 18:22 PST [reply] -------
I agree that there should be a confirmation dialog for Set as Wallpaper. The lack of a confirmation dialog makes the Set as Wallpaper feature less useful to me, because I keep accidentally blowing away my carefully chosen Phoenix Wallpaper.bmp when trying to save porn images.

This is just another case of the FireFox developers staying ahead of the curve. Well done boys. Well done.

Re:What's up with that comma, dude?

[platipusrc]

Man, you need to leave Mr. Shatner alone when he's trying to make a point!

Re:What's up with that comma, dude?

[operagost]

We, need, more, dramatic, pauses, Scotty!

Re:What's up with that comma, dude?

[MemoryAid]

"Can someone, please look at, this."

I'd send it back with a note:

It looks good overall; just remove the two commas and change the period to a question mark. I'm happy to help.