Comments on: CSS Expressions are no more in IE 8 standards mode

By: Jaaap

Jaaap — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:31:33 +0000

Now how do we do make alternating colors for even/odd rows in IE8 standards mode?

It doesn’t support nth-child() and it doesn’t do expression(this.rowIndex%2?”":”") anymore.

By: wwwmarty

wwwmarty — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:38:50 +0000

Long Live Quirks Mode!
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Ahem. So what’s the ‘standards compliant’ workaround for css:expression?

width:expression(document.body.clientWidth/MyScalingVariable);

By: Aimos

Aimos — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:19:56 +0000

1 million? 300 Million or so.

By: JaxPhper

JaxPhper — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:50:39 +0000

Now Microsoft you just have to get my 1 million IE6 users to switch over to a current browser.

By: Marin

Marin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:53:10 +0000

@torerik it will (hopefully with no bugs): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024.aspx

I wanted bits of CSS3 (border-radius/multiple backgroundimages …)

IE8 is a big step ahead but it will stay way behind other browsers if they don’t push (core) updates more often!

By: torerik

torerik — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:17:56 +0000

I only use CSS expressions for fixing IE6 CSS issues like the missing max-width property, so removing this in IE8 is great, as long as the browser really supports CSS 2.1 fully.

By: ahFeel

ahFeel — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:12:30 +0000

I can’t believe they’re doing such big changes and don’t want to rename their XMLHttpRequest object… pff…