If you ever wanted to know how support for CSS improved in IE7, this post is for you. Apparently in August 2006, before IE7 was released, Microsoft posted these details on the IE Blog. The post details all the bugs that were fixed, added support for W3C specifications and features added for CSS 2.1. I [...]
On Using Reset Styles
I don’t usually do link posts, but I thought in this instance it was worth mentioning. I recently discovered 2 posts on Eric Meyer’s blog dealing with reset styles. So what are reset styles and why do we need to use them? For that, read Eric’s post, Reset Reasoning. In this post, Reset Reloaded, Eric [...]
Internet Explorer Ignores Bottom Margin
Well, I noticed something strange today that I had not noticed before. Internet Explorer ignores the bottom margin I had set when it is the last item on the page. I had the same problem in IE 6 and 7, but not in Firefox or Safari. To elaborate, I set a bottom margin on the [...]
Layout Fix for Internet Explorer
A friend of mine, David Ross, just gave me a hot tip the other day. I have a lot of problems with layout in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, usually so much so that I have to have extra IE-only styles for the builds that I do. David told me to make sure when you [...]
CSS Bugs in IE 7
Okay, word on the street is that Internet Explorer 7 has already gained more browser market share since launching in January than Firefox currently has. This means that if you are not designing for IE 7, you should be. IE 6 still has the majority, but according to Microsoft, IE 7 is around 25% and [...]
Wal-Mart Does Not Support Firefox
digg_url = “http://designbycss.com/browsers/wal-mart-does-not-support-firefox.html”; On Tuesday of this week, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch pointed out on the TechCrunch blog that Wal-Mart had mistakes in the code of their brand new video site that prevented the CSS from loading in Firefox. The blog post has a screenshot of what it looked like. It would appear that whoever [...]
Simulating Position Fixed in IE
Good CSS designers know that one of the faults of Internet Explorer 6 is that it doesn’t recognize the CSS property position: fixed. This is a CSS property which allows one element on a page to remain stationary while the other element scrolls, resembling frames in a browser. Our company launched a web site for [...]
Testing Flash Player Compatibility Across Browsers
Today, we were informed by a client that one of the sites we had been working on was not working properly. When the client went to the site, they could see the site, but it was behind a transparent white screen. We had no information on what platform or browser the client was using, but [...]