I just found out that at IE7 can't handle
image containing empty width and height tags.
It just displays the image very smal like 1x1 or so.
Firefox ignores missing values and displays the image just the way it should
be displayed.
Does it prove yet again the IE7 sucks?
I don't know that this is bad fault with IE7. The main technical
fault with IE7 is that it is just a minor update of IE6 and can not
yet support xhtml served properly as application/xhtml+xml, while
nearly all widely used recent browsers including Firefox, Opera,
Seamonkey, Safari, etc do, and most have for quite a while. Either the
people at Microsoft can not or do not want to write the code for a
browser that supports modern W3C standards. IE7 was outdated the
moment it was released, and it was an instant antique from the
technical standpoint. Hopefully, now that Vista is out after much
delay, they will bring their browser up to date, but don't hold your
breath. But there is no accounting for taste. Many users of browsers
have no interest in code at all and are more concerned with the chrome
or other bells and whistles - and in this area, IE7 may have the most
to offer. At least many more large commercial sites have learned that
there are browsers other than IE and Netscape(no longer being
supported), so you do not get instructions to update your browser to
IE or Netscape or a complete lock-out for other browsers so much
anymore, often when the site could work on Firefox or Opera for
example. Of course this sometimes could be overcome by setting the
browser to report itself as IE7 to avoid lock-out.
