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Entries from November 2007

Positioning and z-index in IE

November 29th, 2007 6 Comments

Using absolute positioning to hide and show a nested list is one of the better ways to create a dropdown menu, and it can almost be done using only CSS. IE6 needs a little javascript help to respect the :hover pseudo-class. The Sons of Suckerfish will help you there.
Now you have your perfect semantic validating [...]

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Webstandards with Blue Beanie Day

November 26th, 2007 No Comments

Just a little heads up, and note to self – today is the Blue Beanie Day 2007 . A great way of preaching the way of the web standarista. The Blue Beanie Day is an event created by the Designing With Web Standards group on Facebook, a group so good almost worth joining Facebook for [...]

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Unlocking another iPhone

November 18th, 2007 1 Comment

I unlocked my own iPhone a little while ago, following a lengthy tutorial. Today I unlocked another one, but this time I decided not to go the lengthy connect/disconnect and SSH and so on route.
All I needed was following the instructions on iphone.unlock.no. This let me do everything directly on the iPhone without ever connecting [...]

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IE6 magic bullets

November 8th, 2007 No Comments

Things that sometimes “magically” make Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 behave like expected from modern browsers.

position: relative
zoom: 1
height: 1%

They are all due to Microsoft’s proprietary concept of hasLayout.
Feel free to add any other magic bullets in the comments.

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Font rasterization in Windows XP

November 1st, 2007 1 Comment

If you are on Windows XP1 and have upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, you know, the Internet with glossy buttons, you’ve perhaps noticed that the text looks a slightly smoother then before? That is because in IE7 Windows’ ClearType is enabled by default. You can do this systemwide if you like it. And if you [...]

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