Some interesting findings from web-dev land…
God I hate IE6! The day it’s finally laid to rest will be party day at my place. Everyone is invited!
This is probably an oldie but I came across it for the first time today.
I had some elements that were invisible in IE6. Only until I selected them by mousing over and left clicking.
I managed [...]
It was, (not 100% up on WAG2 yet) a W3C WAI accessibility recommendation to nest your form fields (inputs/selects etc) inside your label tags. So they were contained by the label much like you’d put an <img> tag inside an <a> tag to make it a link.
The Rails helpers don’t seem to have much [...]
OK we all know that IE6 & 7 render styles differently to good old FireFox. I must say I continually find myself cursing Internet Explorer for this exact reason!
So in some cases the only way to solve these issues is to load in an additional style sheet. After your main style sheet has loaded. One [...]
I wanted to apply a different set of css styles to a degraded non-javascript version of a page to maintain some accessibility aspects.
I wrestled for a while with the <noscript> tag but this fails to validate in the head section of a HTML/XHTML document. This wasn’t a good enough way to do things.
Eventually (with a [...]