Mar5
Don’t get me wrong: on balance, I’m thrilled with the standards support in Internet Explorer 8. But I’ll highlight two areas that really disappoint me. The first is the fact that IE’s proprietary event system is here to stay. The second is that, apart from generated content, giant parts of CSS 2.1 are still unsupported (like :first-child). This dilutes the value of IE8’s support for the Selectors API. If you’re running the beta, this test page will tell you whether it groks a particular selector. I’m sure all this will come up at select SXSWi panels.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm (Quote ↓)
[…] is supposed to cover all of CSS 2.1. Andrew Dupont has posted with a CSS validator that runs the query against IE8’s querySelector […]
March 6th, 2008 at 3:10 am (Quote ↓)
I think they must be worried about ‘breaking the web’, or breaking their own products if they introduce w3c events.
But it you’re talking about actual css :first-child is already supported in ie7.