{"id":2309,"date":"2004-03-09T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T09:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/10\/beating-internet-explorer-into-the-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:48:04","slug":"beating-internet-explorer-into-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/09\/beating-internet-explorer-into-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating Internet Explorer into the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11572,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dean.edwards.name\\\/IE7&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240607072450\\\/http:\\\/\\\/dean.edwards.name\\\/ie7\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:15:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:51:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:51:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I can hardly wait until this is finished enough for the &#8216;download&#8217; link to be active: <a href=\"http:\/\/dean.edwards.name\/IE7\/\" title=\"dean.edwards.name\/IE7\/\">IE7, a hack to force IE into behaving like a modern browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This is an attempt to make Microsoft Internet Explorer more compliant when it comes to web standards.<\/p>\n<p>  Web developers are becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of convergence of the major browser vendors. We need a level playing field!<\/p>\n<p>  CSS is a powerful technology. Many of it&#8217;s more advanced features go unused by web developers because of Explorer&#8217;s poor support of CSS standards.<\/p>\n<p>  IE7 provides support for most of the important CSS enhancements. A full list is available on the compatibility page.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About time someone figured out how to do this, since Microsoft doesn&#8217;t seem to want to bother&#8230;;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;You&#8217;re Gonna Get Yours&#8221; by Public Enemy from the album <em>Yo! Bum Rush the Show<\/em> (1987, 4:05).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly wait until this is finished enough for the &#8216;download&#8217; link to be active: IE7, a hack to force IE into behaving like a modern browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}