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ShareAs my applications have grown in complexity, I’ve followed a path probably quite similar to many of you with respect to .js file maintenance. In the beginning I had one js file to include in the site’s/app’s header, containing just a few basic js functions used across the site.
As my JavaScript codebase grew, I [...]

ShareAnyone that does front end web development or web design hates Internet Explorer 6.  Why?  First released in 2001, IE6 is dog slow, very buggy, and essentially completely non-standards compliant.
These issues manifest themselves in two primary categories as best I can tell:  javaScript bugs/behaviors, and layout/CSS behaviors or missing features.
So, developers learn to code around [...]

ShareSmashing Magazine is more for the web “design” and photoshop crowd, but any developers working with GUI/front ends at all (which is most of us) will find tons of great information there.  Chris Blatnik says that it is the GUI that makes or breaks an app (after all, the users never see the code, no [...]

ShareMozilla just released a new 3.5.3 Beta 1. It looks like just a bunch of bug fixes. (now this would have made a perfect tweet…)

ShareMore thoughts on this later, but for now, just check out Dean Edwards’ IE7.js javascript library, which causes IE to behave like a standards-compliant browser. Eric Meyer has some great thoughts about IE7.js as well.  Note that both IE7.js and Eric’s blog post have been around a while, but this is still good stuff for [...]

ShareIf you’re a web developer, chances are you’ve grown to hate Internet Explorer 6 due to its inconsistencies with respect to CSS, JavaScript, and standards in general.  One additional annoyance is IE6’s lack of support for PNG transparency.
At my institution, we still have a very large installed base for IE6 (over 70% of our machines), [...]