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Defining The Vomit Bug

The more I test HTML 5 and the more I play around in the DOM, the more I find odd situations that will trigger particular bugs. The one result I'm seeing is what I'm now referring to as a vomit bug.

Safari show bug

This is probably the first time I've come across a bug in Safari that's comparable in bizarreness to IE bugs. The symptoms of this bug are that when you set the CSS display property to block from none the element doesn't appear. In fact, it has a height of zero.

window.onresize hangs IE6 and IE7

Another bug that I've not seen before that caused some confusion. Actually, the bug almost makes sense, except that it leaves IE6 and IE7 completely hanging.

When links in ULs don't work in IE

In redesigning my business web site: Left Logic I came across a particularly frustrating bug that took me a good deal of time to find the source of. Since I couldn't find any info out it on the Internet, I thought it would be worth posting. IE, both IE6 and IE7, in the following example, [...]

IE 7 breaks getElementById

First let me say this took me ages to work out how this was going wrong, and that this bug affects both IE6 and IE7. IE is treating the name attribute on forms as the ID attribute, causing the getElementById to return very unexpected results.

Auto input grow with CSS (but is it a bug?)

I've been looking at the del.icio.us auto text grow functionality recently, and noticed you can achieve a similar effect in CSS, but only for IE. I originally thought this was a bug since it didn't work in Firefox or Safari.