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Archive for the 'CSS Tricks and Hacks' Category

Safari Filter

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Safari is one of the good browsers, right? I sometimes wonder, since its behavior is not always identical to the OTHER good browsers, Firefox and Opera (especially the windows version of Safari, which refuses to show css chosen fonts for ANY h elements, a bizarreness beyond belief and very annoying.) Well, according to a poster [...]

Equal Height Columns using CSS

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

My favorite Norwegian Cow has a great article that wraps up in a nice package the use of CSS display table properties to create equal height columns, and the workarounds that he’s developed to make both IE6 and 7 understand what all the other browsers get with few problems. Georg’s method allows us to develop [...]

Wide Screens and Usability

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

More and more people are going to wide screens these days. In general, though your particular stats may vary, less than 9% of web users overall are surfing at an 800 x 600 resolution. Approximately half are using 1024 x 768, with the rest using resolutions between 1280 wide and 1680 wide. With css we [...]

My take on IE7; meet the new bugs, same as the old bugs

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

IE7 Devs promised a lot, and indeed they did fix some of the most glaring errors in Web Standards Compliance in IE7. I will be forever grateful for IE7 now paying attention to min width/height and max width/height, even though I still have to hack for IE6 for those attributes. But after a few months [...]

IE6 Min-height ‘Hack’ that isn’t

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Now that IE7 recognizes the min-height but so many people are still using IE6, how do we make sure that IE6 “gets” min-height without hacking? According to Shelly on the CSS-Discuss list, the cleanest simplest way is to use the cascade and the fact that IE6 treats height as if it’s min-height. First you use [...]

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