Oh my goodness, this is so good. Just when I wrote that child selectors are not possible in IE, Dean Edwards is proving me wrong. He is writing a behavior that will bring most of the wonderful CSS2 stuff (and even some CSS3) to rusty IE5+ on Win. And it’s available under Creative Commons licence.
Read all about it here, and behold the progress here. I’m so excited about this that I’m barely holding myself not to bug Dean about the progress and when he is expecting to finish. From my own experience I know that work is best done when not rushed.
Keep up the good work Dean.
prove me i’m wrong … this technique could be also used for correcting other IE browser bugs, like wrong box model etc, couldn’t be?
Yes, probably would. Dean actually fixed the IE bug with multiple class names. I don’t know it he plans to deal with box model, but I don‘t consider it a priority.
Adding child and sibling selectors, with addition of min-width and max-width properties would be quite enough.
Unfortunately, the only min-max fixes I have seen cause the browser to perform REALLY horribly on resize. Keepin’ my fingers crossed. Let’s hope he can get it to run reasonably nicely (that is one of the last things really holding me back on some designs — I can hack around the box model, easily enough).
So very cool — saved me hours of work in the first 30 mins…