I have installed Internet Explorer 7 RC1 on my WinXP box and found that the menus on this site didn’t work right with it. IE 7 now interprets child selectors. So the selector that was formally meant to be read by Firefox and Opera is now also read by IE. Unfortunately the top:auto;left:auto statements are interpreted differently by IE 7.

So now I dropped the child selector and the auto-statements and now the menus look like they looked in IE 6 in all browsers. It’s not that bad. They overlap the menubar items a bit now, but that’s OK. At least it works on all major browsers now.

Finally it’s here - the UIS2 port. It’s also another attempt at fixing horizontal taskbars.

Besides the port to UIS2 there’s another — visible — feature: The tabs and tab panes now have a color of their own. Although many applications don’t cope very nicely with the background of tab panes — they simply put panes on them that use the window background color as their background —, it’s getting better. Colored tabs are only available for the UIS2 version. There’s also a UIS2 version with the old tabs that don’t use the new color.

The UIS1+ version is now considered legacy and will probably be dropped on the next release.

I’m hosting the Squareness site now on my own domain. It’s way faster than SourceForge and here I can use MovableType which I prefer over WordPress. Static publishing which is supported perfectly by MovableType is faster than WordPress’ dynamic publishing.

All old page addresses are now redirected to the new site. Only for the RSS2 feed I wasn’t able to formulate a working rewrite rule. So you’ll have to add the new feed manually to your news reader. Since now there is a filtered representation of the DevBlog for each part of Squareness there are now also feeds for those parts. Take a look at News Feeds for a complete list of available feeds.

You’ll notice that the site design has also changed with the move to the new domain. It now looks and feels like Squareness. You’ll probably also notice that the tabs on those pages have now a new background color. I came up with that color as I developed the skin for ShapeShifter — a MacOSX theme changer. This new background color will be included in all Squareness skins as the time goes by. The WindowBlinds skin will make the start later this week.