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I generally design only for the latest browsers. If my code works on the most recent version of Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE then I’m happy. However, Internet Explorer is such a piece of crap that sometimes atrocious errors on IE7 give me great pause. (As of this writing IE8 was the current browser.) I’ve said [...]

I was tired of creating theme images on my Mac that came out murky on the PC. I went to look at a theme on the PC and it looked horrible. I had to retouch all the images I had spent so long creating in Photoshop. With Snow Leopard, Apple is moving to a gamma [...]

Firefox has released a security update. Firefox isn’t my primary browser, that’s Safari, so sometimes I feel like there’s a security update available every time I open Firefox or Opera. Of course I test on them, though. I like that there are multiple browsers now, it’s a much healthier community. And they’re all better than Internet [...]

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 today. I downloaded it and am really hopeful that, well, basically that it will cause less trouble in my life than previous versions. I have a long history with Internet Explorer. In some ways it’s kind of weird to be watching it from afar. The entire Internet Explorer group, including me, [...]

I learned something about button elements in IE7 today. If you don’t have both an open and a close tag, they will not close and will eat up all the rest of the content. If course it works fine, as it should, in all other browsers. Here’s what you want to avoid: <button type="submit" class="foo" /> And instead [...]