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Chicago Web Meetup Reminder & The Looming IE7 Release

Oct 12, 2006

Chicago Web Meetup
Elephant and Castle, 111 W. Adams Street, (312) 236-6656
Wednesday, October 18
7pm

I may require co-worker Howitt to wear a sombrero so you’ll know where we are. (Note: we’ll be in the bar area to the left when you first walk in.) From what I’m hearing, I think we’ll have a decent turnout. Looking forward to it!

In Related Web News -

The announcement this week that the release of IE7 is “fast approaching” has caused us to review our preparedness plans. I thought I’d share our game plan, as it may be helpful for others. Nothing earth-shattering here, but nonetheless:

  • We’ve been keeping all our IE “workarounds” in an IE-specific stylesheet that gets called conditionally for IE6 and under. That way the hacks patches we use for IE6/5.5 won’t be applied to IE7, as most of them will no longer be needed (and hooray for that).
  • We use the handy-dandy Browsercam to test sites in various browsers, including IE7 Beta.
  • The “clearfix” clearing method doesn’t behave in IE7 without some minor tinkering. Co-worker Kenny located a clearfix adjustment on Roger Johansson’s site. If you’re using the clearfix, this small adjustment to the code will save you lots of anguish and lots of phone calls from clients when their site goes fugly.

Again, nothing monumental, but thought I’d share in the spirit of making everyone’s IE7 transition a bit smoother. Anyone have any other tactics they’re employing?

  • Definitely a great time. I was thinking the meetup would be more of a quarterly thing, but there's seems to be a rising sentiment that we should do the meetup monthly, to help build steam. I'm thinking a Doodle poll might be in order...
  • Jeff - Yeah, I'll probably leave clearfix in place for old projects, but might try this new method on my current project. I'm not too concerned about using the overflow property, but more experimentation is needed.
  • I too had a great time. It was nice to get out in a non-work environment and talk about whatever. Definitely looking forward to the next one.

    Todd - I saw that fix as well. I'm a little wary of that fix because of the use of the overflow property. Its kind of a 6 on one 1/2 dozen on the other. We opted to use clearfix a long while back, so to do a find/replace (basically) is going to be pretty simple. As for the other stuff that may come up, well, I'm hoping there isn't any, but I'm sure I'll update our company blog if I find anything.
  • I enjoyed the meetup — thanks for organizing it. Going by the focus of conversation, though, you should have called it the "The Drunken Adventures of Adam Meetup." That straw-in-the-eye story got a great cringe from my wife. Looking forward to the next meetup, whenever and wherever it is.

    My current project only needed the change to "clearfix" in order to be IE7-friendly, I'm relieved to say… though it's not live, anyway. The old-school nav used on the current website of this company (who shall remain nameless) breaks in IE7, so we'll probably need to graft the new nav onto the old pages until the new pages are ready to go. Could be interesting.

    I'm thinking of ditching clearfix in favor of this solution from Anne Van Kesteren (via Andy Clarke). Yes, clearfix has been "fixed" for IE7, but this option involves a little less markup, keeping the fix in the CSS. What do you think?
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