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May 23, 2008
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Getting a button element’s value attribute (not innerHTML) in IE

After spending a small part of my evening debugging Javascript in IE (which is ALWAYS a pleasure), I found out one of my errors was a mistake I had made before… trying to access button.value in IE.  IE, of course, being IE, returns the innerHTML value of the button, instead of the value attribute.  Last […]

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March 5, 2008
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Big release day on the webbernet

So I guess it’s simply the time of year. Many big releases today… software, APIs, and more! First, the biggest. IE8 has been released in initial beta. The release was also included a general overview of IE8’s new features and fixes. It’s actually quite a lot of information to absorb all at once. I’ve skimmed […]

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March 4, 2008
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Throwing IE8 in acid.

My IE8 happiness was so yesterday.  Now let’s tear all these browsers apart, IE8 included, with the Acid3 test!

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Microsoft takes giant PR step with IE8 default behavior

So Microsoft announced they’re changing the default rendering behavior in IE8.  Reasons why aside (see 3rd to last paragraph), they are actually doing it.  This simply spreads good will, which is something Microsoft is hardly known for.  It’s a big public relations boon. Seriously, thank you Microsoft.  Here’s to the continued spreading of good will.

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January 26, 2008
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The IE8 doctype meta waiting game

The first time I played Yahtzee was… only about a month ago. I won 3 of my first 4 games. It was a fun game. I wonder how that game would be if I played against… oh, let’s say… Microsoft. Probably… not so much. Jeremy Keith, my favorite famous-web-developer-that-I-watch-from-afar-via-his-blog (sorry, didn’t have a better term […]

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January 22, 2008
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IE8, Doctype and potentially broken default behavior

I woke up this morning and read the A List Apart articles (that I defered reading until this a.m.).  The powers that be have decided that IE will now use a metatag to decide what rendering type (ie6, ie7, ie9, etc.) to use.  This allows for backwards compatibility.  Supposedly. First, I don’t really care about the meta.  It’s fine… it is just one more trick to add to the pile. […]

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December 19, 2007
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Microsoft claims IE8 passes Acid2?

Microsoft is claiming that a working version of IE8 is showing the smiley, and has passed the Acid2 test. Even if Microsoft is lying, this means that at the very least, someone there is using a browser that can pass! [that, or they stole the screenshot from some place!]

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December 18, 2007
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Another design tweak

As you might have noticed, I’ve been a bit pre-occupied recently. And likely will be so in the future. So a design for this site has once again been placed on the back burner. I am good for a tweak-ing, however. Looks fine in Firefox 2 for mac/pc. Opera, has a small problem, I think […]

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December 5, 2007
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Minor distractions

In an effort to keep my mind occupied elsewhere, here are a couple of distractions to share. The Magical Minimalism of Microformat – The New York Times tipping their hat to Microformats Internet Explorer 8 – Please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying… Email Standards Project – Please turn out […]

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September 12, 2007
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blurry focus

I’ve been working on the same project for about 4 weeks now. 4 weeks straight. It’s the re-design of certain parts of a big site using CSS. Sounds like nothing, but the constraints of the re-design are that it must function almost exactly like the old. Therein lies the difficulty. It is surprisingly hard to […]

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September 4, 2007
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Pushing Browsers

So I have been working on a small piece of navigation at work. Tabs, to be exact. Multiple items, but no more than 5 at a time. Variable length titles (including some rather long). As it is a list of links, of course, I wanted to use an unordered list. It all made perfect semantic […]

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August 22, 2007
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IE Flicker… thought we had a solution

So we thought we just had a solution to the IE 6 background-image flicker problem. We were trying the javascript again, but calling it from the CSS. Nope, back to intermittent searches.

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August 21, 2007
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IE 6 background flicker problem revisited

So I fell into the (now famous to me) Internet Explorer 6 background-image flicker problem. Oh, fun times. There have been a few different solutions presented, ranging from javascript to server settings (or my favorite [sarcasm], to put the background-image on a copy of itself so you don’t see the flicker). The problem is that […]

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August 20, 2007
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Internet Explorer 6 still stinks

Another day with a considerable chunk WASTED on IE6. What a totally irresponsible release.

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