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Internet Explorer should die

Every now and then the festering issue of IE as a viable browser rears it’s ugly head. This eventuality usually occurs right around the release of a new version. Microsofts latest iteration, IE8, was slated to be released without standards mode being the default rendering mode. With all the progress that the web comunity has made with standards why wouldn’t this be the default? Continue Reading »

setAttribute, a gallery, IE, and hours of my life wasted

One of my favorite books is Dom Scripting by Jeremy Keith. I’ve used his concepts for a gallery I designed for my dad’s portfolio. Well in the process of making updates to that site I ran into a problem. I wanted to display wider images than normal for one of the pages, to not have to reduce the images down to fit on the page. I turned on scrolls for the overflow adding to the CSS rule for the gallery div. That’s when it all went south. Continue Reading »

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