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today revealed continuing flaws in Microsoft's support for the Cascading<br />
Style Sheets standard, and challenged the company to improve its browser's<br />
handling of the crucial standard.</p>
<p>Created in response to a challenge from Microsoft, the "IE Top 10 CSS<br />
Problems" was developed by WSP's "CSS Samurai," an ad hoc committee of<br />
Cascading Style Sheets experts. The list vividly demonstrates how far the<br />
Redmond company must go if it intends to claim superior web standards<br />
support in its upcoming release of the Internet Explorer 5.0 browser.</p>
<p>WSP's "CSS Samurai" group includes Invited Experts to the World Wide Web<br />
Consortium and contributors to the CSS standard. This W3C-created standard<br />
gives developers precise control over the appearance of Web pages. However,<br />
the document at (<a href="http://www.webstandards.org/ie/" title="http://www.webstandards.org/ie/">http://www.webstandards.org/ie/</a>) reveals that many<br />
critical features of CSS-1 remain either incorrectly implemented;<br />
implemented for only an undocumented selection of eligible HTML elements;<br />
or entirely neglected in Microsoft's browser.</p>
<p>"While we commend Microsoft for leading the way in implementing Cascading<br />
Style Sheets, first in Internet Explorer 3.0, unfortunately there've been<br />
significant parts of the standard that have been neglected or incorrectly<br />
implemented in their browser up to now," said George Olsen, WSP Project<br />
Leader and Design Director/Web Architect at 2-Lane Media<br />
(<a href="http://www.2lm.com" title="http://www.2lm.com">http://www.2lm.com</a>) in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>"We realize the next version of Internet Explorer is still in beta and hope<br />
that these problems will be fixed by the final release so that Explorer<br />
will be 100 percent compliant with CSS-1 -- especially since Microsoft has<br />
been spending development time adding non-standard extensions to CSS in<br />
their beta releases so far," he said.</p>
<p>Last week, in response to a WSP lobbying campaign, Netscape said its<br />
Navigator 5.0 will include software intended to make the browser 100<br />
percent compliant with CSS-1 and will also support parts of the CSS-2<br />
standard.</p>
<p>The current browser bugs and omissions in CSS-1 can render pages impossible<br />
to read and make it nearly impossible for developers to use CSS-1 without<br />
workarounds, said Todd Fahrner, leader of WSP's "CSS Samurai" committee and<br />
Design Technologist for San Francisco-based Studio Verso<br />
<p>"Now that Netscape shows every sign of achieving 100 percent CSS-1<br />
conformance in its 5.0 browser, we challenge Microsoft to keep pace in both<br />
its Windows and Macintosh offerings, to evacuate rendering issues once and<br />
for all from the browser-war battlefield," Fahrner said.</p>
<p>Many of the specific problems that Internet Explorer needs to address<br />
involve laying out elements of a Web page and handling styles correctly.</p>
<p>Areas that need to be addressed for Internet Explorer to fully support<br />
CSS-1 include:</p>
<p>* Proper handling of CSS-1's Web page layout features, so that Web<br />
developers no longer need to work around the problem by using HTML tables<br />
or other inappropriate code for layout.</p>
<p>* Fixing problems that prevent CSS-1 typographic styles from working<br />
properly within HTML tables -- a problem that's particularly frustrating to<br />
Web developers because they've had to use HTML tables as a workaround to<br />
the previously mentioned CSS-1 layout problems.</p>
<p>* Supporting the ability to switch stylesheets, which would redefine the<br />
appearance of a Web page to fit the needs of particular users (for example,<br />
those needing high-contrast colors to help them read) or the needs of<br />
particular platforms (such as changing a page so that it works better on a<br />
television- or PDA-based browser).</p>
<p>These examples are the first of a series of WSP standards-compliance<br />
reviews to provide feedback on interim releases of major browsers. WSP is<br />
also working with The Open Group <a href="http://www.opengroup.org" title="http://www.opengroup.org">http://www.opengroup.org</a>, which is<br />
developing a full test suite for CSS-1, expected to be completed in a few<br />
months.</p>
<p>About The Web Standards Project:<br />
WSP is an international coalition of Web developers and Web experts who are<br />
urging browser makers to fully support Cascading Style Sheet Level 1<br />
(CSS-1), the Document Object Model (DOM) and XML in their browsers. Its<br />
effort to bring attention to the existing and potential problems involved<br />
with browser incompatibility does not mean that WSP is opposed to<br />
innovations by browser manufacturers. The coalition merely urges browser<br />
manufacturers to use open standards for enhancements and support existing<br />
ones before adding new features.</p>
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