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Smashing Mag: How to Support IE and Still be Cutting Edge

Posted by Chris Renner on December 1, 2009

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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 [...]

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Firefox 3.5.3 Beta 1

Posted by Chris Renner on September 2, 2009

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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…)

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IE7.js a universal solution to IE6 craptastic-ness?

Posted by Chris Renner on July 14, 2009

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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 [...]

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PNG transparency fixes for IE6

Posted by Chris Renner on May 4, 2009

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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), [...]

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