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{Wednesday, June 27, 2007}

Another reason to hate M$

I often find myself defending Microsoft and aruging FOR software copyright and patents. Well not anymore! Microsoft have just lost one more supporter.

Unsupported Cascading Style Sheet Properties Compared with Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1

The following is a list of all the top-level cascading style sheet properties that the Cascading Stylesheet Specification, Level 1 supports, but that Word 2007 does not support. Note that Word 2007 considers unsupported cascading style sheet properties to be unknown properties.

  • background-attachment
  • background-image
  • background-position
  • background-repeat
  • clear
  • display
  • float
  • list-style-image
  • list-style-position
  • text-transform
  • word-spacing

This is taken from this hideous document that Microsoft should be ashamed even exists, I hope the person who was made to write it immediately quit!

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{6/27/2007 11:53 AM}

Rob Smith

It's crap I know. And to add insult to injury MS have replaced the IE rendering engine in Outlook 2007 with Word!!!
{6/27/2007 11:59 AM}

Thom Shannon

Yup, I'm working on our mailout, which is why I just set my MSDN subscription folder on fire and hurled it out of the window.
{6/27/2007 3:21 PM}

Derek Fowler

I've had no end of trouble trying to get HTML and CSS to render nicely in Word. First I tried to use a style tag in the head with id and class selectors but that wasn't playing nice and then I had it flatlining my machine for ten minutes whilst it tried to render checkboxes!

Hope they've fixed that in Word 7 cos it did my head in.
{6/27/2007 4:51 PM}

Michael James

The new office suite has been let down by this. I quite like all the new apps but the fact that outlook now uses word instead of IE for rendering is a real kick in the nads. Needless to say I no longer use outlook.
{7/07/2007 11:42 PM}

Martin Owen

You can take some comfort in the fact that Microsoft themselves are in the same boat: X-Box Live HTML E-Mail Disclaimer.
{7/20/2007 12:42 PM}

Danny Tuppeny

Word is a Word Processor, not a web browser / HTML editor.

The problem isn't with Word, but the decision to make it the default renderer for Outlook.

I suspect this is either for security reasons (subset of features = subset of bugs/exploits), or because of the moaning gits who don't like IE being "part of the OS" and relied on by other apps. It seems whatever they do, someone will be upset :-)
{7/20/2007 12:49 PM}

Thom Shannon

yeah I read somewhere it was down to a court case about Office relying on IE.

I don't see why they can't make the rendering engine part of the OS with an open API for other apps to use it. Then IE would just be an implementation of that engine, and other browsers (or mail clients) could do the same thing.