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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, [...]

Pretty in Print: tips for print styles

Printing web pages is often forgotten about and there's nothing more annoying than printing out a web page that comes out in one long, half page width column spanning 5 pages when it should be 2. You don't need to have a completely separate page for print either. All too often we see web sites [...]

Gettin' Nek'ked.

Again this year Dustin Diaz has thrown down the gauntlet as asked volunteers to strip off for CSS naked day this coming Thursday. I've installed the plugin and I'm ready for that chilly moment when I drop the kackies off this web site.

Accessible, degradable style control - part 1

This the first in a two part tutorial on how to create style control links to your web site to control font sizes and to control style sheets both from JavaScript and with JavaScript disabled browsers. This method will also keep the user on the page they changed the style from, and will continue to hold [...]

Firebug 1.0 beta

Firebug 1.0 beta for Firefox was released this month, and oh my, the Swiss Army knife of the browsers just got wings - and there's even support (via a Firebug Lite) for IE, Safari and Opera.

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.

How Mac IE taught me better CSS

Generally when you say you've done your browser testing it will mostly take place on a PC, and at the very least, it will be IE†. † No matter how much we developers or designers complain that IE isn't standards compliant, and Firefox is the way, the World still prefers IE (at time of writing!). However, being [...]