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Some Internet Explorer Innovations You Probably Forgot About While Waiting for IE6 To Die
Lost in the past few years of IE6 based stagnation (and ensuing developer angst) is the fact that the Internet Explorer team have come up with some pretty cool enhancements to the way we build web sites over the past ten plus years. So, while we’re cheering on Firefox’s growing market share, hesitantly eying IE8…
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Using overflow:auto to Clear Floated Content in CSS
For a long time, I used something like <div style="clear:both"></div> or its class equivalent to clear floated content in layouts. I knew, at some level, there were better solutions, but as these things go– I had deadlines to meet, had a working solution and there was never any inducement to look for a new one.…
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Acid3 Test Released. I Took Some Screen Captures. Lots of Fail.
Screen Shots These were done with browsercam, so the test may or may not have fully run its course by the time the 15 second delay was up. Still, it’s not like any of these browsers were close, so a few seconds isn’t going to save them if, in fact, they were cut off before…
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Two Columns of Variable But Equal Height Using Simple CSS and a Couple of DIVs
If, like me, you cut your web development teeth during while CSS was still in its infancy, you likely put together a lot of sites that featured two (or more) columns decorated with bgcolors or background images that flowed together in lockstep, always retaining equivalent height. It was pretty standard and basically came along free…
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Why Did I Never Try this Before? CSS Font-Size : 0 Hides Input Button Text
Support: This technique is supported by IE 5.+, Firefox (and the rest of the Mozilla family) and Safari 3.0*. It is not supported by Opera** (any version), Netscape 6.2 and earlier or Camino. Warning: I haven’t thought this all the way through, so if you see any problems with this technique other than the above…