Concerning CSS hacks part 2
More important than the empty legend tag thing for me (and I agree with the others, here… displaying an empty tag makes no sense), I hope IE7’s fieldsets display correctly when a background color is present. If that’s intentional behavior, that also doesn’t make sense.
Lots of effort to conform pages to buggy w3c standards.
“Gil”, Microsoft doesn’t own the blog software, it’s community server by Telligent.
YWDRYP: Why don’t all the other browsers change to be like IE? After all, w.r.t. the legend tag, IE is just as compliant as the others are (since the spec doesn’t say what to do with an empty legend tag). And IE has more than 90% of the market share, so clearly the other browsers should be following IE’s lead here.
Since this isn’t a spec compliance issue (the spec is silent in this matter), they should follow the behavior of the dominant browser, and not be different for the sake of being different.
Microsoft should follow examples by other browser makers because they’re already more developed in standards than IE. It would also be easier for IE to change then for all the other browsers makers to make that one change.
