J. Cornelius

So there you are, admiring your hard work. Your pixel precise, artfully crafted design with it’s clever use of 24bit alpha-transparent PNG images to create the perfect effect you wanted. Bravo! Well, that is until you look at it in IE6. So you hack the CSS or add special Javascripts to force things to playing nice. How about this? Instead of using one of the many Javascript or CSS... continue »

Yesterday Google announced that they enhanced Gmail for IE 6 users. Really? Google updated the Gmail core almost a year ago. According to the post “IE6 wasn’t able to handle the complexity of the new code in a way that met our performance and stability goals”. So now, 10 months later they release new code saying “we’ve been working with the IE engineers at... continue »

So it seems IE8 is petting the cat backwards already. Hakon Lie’s article bashes IE for its use of a broken page icon to denote standards compliant pages. This is a epic misapplication of an icon — but, is it truly a sign of Microsoft denouncing the use of Web Standards? No. As Hakon says in his post, and others have pointed out the default is to render Intranet pages in... continue »

Using classic FIR or similar Image replacement techniques is fabulous except that IE doesn't follow the rules on image caching and CSS. Here's how to configure your server to force IE to behave.Thanks to Dean Edwards and Ryan Carver for figuring this out. It took me a while to find the two pages linked above so I've included this here for fast reference. Here's a lightweight overview: ... continue »