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IEtester makes debugging a little easier

June 30th, 2008 1 Comment

I’ve been testing in multiple IEs for a while, but recently I ran into a huge problem. Huge to me because I rely on conditional comments rather than CSS hacks/filters. As it turns out multiple IE doesn’t read conditional comments, probably because Windows and/or the Internet Explorers get confused about which browser itself is. I [...]

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How to make other browsers faster!

April 28th, 2008 No Comments

Or make IE slower. Or appear slower. Which is the same. Is that so wrong of me? I’m already doing so by feeding IE additional stylesheets and ocationaly markup through conditional comments. And in those stylesheets you often find extra images.
But by making sure my main stylesheet is clean, and use all the CSS2.1 goodness, [...]

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Positioning and z-index in IE

November 29th, 2007 2 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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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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Webdeveloper tools for IE

October 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Firefox has all the plugins you can poke a stick at, but what to do when IE is doing its “thing”? Windows Explorer plugins to the rescue!
Westciv’s XRAY is a javascript bookmarklet that lets you click on items in your webpage and view some of the CSS information regarden the area you’ve selected.
Microsoft has their [...]

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