Posts in: Web development
- On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it
- For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I remember [...] [25 Jan 2008]
- Internet Explorer 8 round-up
- My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it UPDATES: Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility. Best Standards Support Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests. Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for Internet Explorer. Microsoft᾿s “Super Standards” Mode: Important [...] [22 Jan 2008]
- IE8 will pass the ACID test
- Or as Molly put it: Yes Ladies and Gentleman, We Have a Smiley. From the IEBlog: … I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode. While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several [...] [19 Dec 2007]
- ‘Namespace’ your <body> tags
- Lately, I’ve been using specificity, inheritance and ‘The Cascade’ to my advantage by adding an id to the <body> tag of every page. This id acts as a namespace of sorts, allowing you to assign page or section-specific style sheets. It’s a technique I’ve employed on smaller, static sites. But it would work at least as [...] [18 Dec 2007]
- ies4linux: Now with Mac support!
- I’ve mentioned ies4Linux before, as well as a round-about way to get it running on your Mac OS X machine. Well, first Mike Kronenberg cut out a few steps and released ies4osx. Then Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior added those changes into the latest version of ies4linux. This isn’t yet a one-step operation. You will [...] [6 Dec 2007]
- Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 released, Google Desktop for Mac brings gadgets to Dashboard
- Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 is Here! Google Desktop for Mac Google Desktop for Mac seems like overkill since Spotlight is pretty robust (in my opinion). But the ability to deploy Google Gadgets in Dashboard? I’m thinking that’s genius. Previously: Widgets and Gadgets and Modules! Oh my! Elsewhere: The Year of the Widget? on Newsweek.com [29 Nov 2007]
