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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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!]

So I had a problem a while back where I thought Firefox for Mac was picking up some left-over or un-overridden size styles, while the other browsers were not. It turns out that it wasn’t actually my problem. While all of the other browsers that I tested… for both Windows and Mac display the default [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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