So IE7 was released yesterday. Since everybody and their dog were blogging about that, I decided not to waste a post on it, despite the fact that it would've been an excellent opportunity to remind everybody of my Find As You Type add-on.
But IE7's release did mean I finally had to bite the bullet and look for a workaround to one of IE7's bugs. This particular bug means that if you have any right-floated italic text on your page, doesn't matter where, the page gets a rediculously huge horizontal scrollbar. You can see this bug in action here (includes screenshot of the bug).
This bug affects one of my sites, namely the front page of obsdewilgen.nl (site in Dutch). The dates on the updates on the right are right-floated and italic, so they triggered the bug. I had put off doing anything about that since IE7 was still in beta, despite the fact that Dave Massy had already informed me that they weren't going to fix this.
But now I couldn't delay any longer. I figured I'd just have to change the text to not be italic, but I'm glad to say I found a work around! Simply set overflow-x:hidden on the body element, and there you go.
It's a shame this bug's in there, since it's a regression (IE6 didn't have the problem), and I really wish they'd fixed it, but thankfully with this workaround I can still get my site to look as I intended it in IE7.
Let's hope this bug'll be gone in IE8. :-)
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