IE7 1 Moofx/Scriptaculous 0

May 25

IE7 1 Moofx/Scriptaculous 0

So as I’ve been tinkering with IE7 beta and seeing how well it works (wow ma! Just like 2004!!!) I was shocked, saddened, dismayed to see it rendering both a few scriptaculous pages I’m working on as well as all of my moofx plugins with shiny spiffy doubled text.

From what I have been able to gather via diligent research (googling alot) is that when the slide/accordion/fade effects trigger IE 7 (and sometimes 6) are doubling the text. Supposedly a quick and dirty fix (hack) is to simply set a background color for the element being affected however a. that’s a bit difficult when working with faux column based sites and b. not very elegant of a solution.

Obviously this is one of those situations where either Microsoft’s bug team will go “oh hey we screwed up, sorry about that” since IE7 is still a “beta” product or else as usual and as we all expect from them, we develop a workaround and spend a few more years decrying the crap that Redmond ships. I’m betting on the latter but the hopeful part of me sees a little hope for IE being fixed.

As soon as I can come up with a clean workaround that doesn’t interfere with faux columns I’ll post updated versions of all 3 moofx plugins. I might even take the opportunity to polish up the options panel versions and maybe even release the “all-in-one multiplug” version.

Until I get that done though I head up to Seattle for Folklife and some excellent hippylike fun in the sun. Oh and in other news, Wednesday morning Zoe and I got to hear the baby’s heartbeat for the first time!!! The Midwife said Zoe’s about 12 weeks along and we can expect a baby around December 3rd. Woohoo!

Only 2 months left until we get the first ultrasound (and expect me to post it here as soon as I get my hands on it.

Anyhow have a great weekend and catch ya on the flipside!

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