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Internet Explorer 6: Causing Misery and Frustration Since 2001November 25 2008

Don’t Hate the Game - Hate the Browser If you’ve looked around the CSS Tinderbox a little bit so far, you probably picked up on how I really feel about IE6 because I tend to bring it up all the...

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They Just Keep Coming!!November 11 2008

“I Wish I Could Quit You.” As if Far Cry 2, Gears of War 2 and Dead Space being recently released isn’t already enough to satisfy the Xbox 360 aficionado, Left 4 Dead is set for...

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The Struggles and Rewards of Proletarian Web DesignNovember 6 2008

Part I: Getting In Touch With Your Inner Geek Every so often I get an email from people asking me for my opinion on how they might go about learning this here web design mumbo-jumbo and if I have any...

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Never Underestimate the Impact of Detail In DesignOctober 23 2008

Ignoring the forest for the trees. Wait. There’s a forest?! Lately I’ve noticed that the art-side of my brain has been working differently now, especially the past several months. Thankfully...

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Cross-Browser Testing In Real Time… VirtuallyOctober 10 2008

Does This Browser Make Me Look Fat?

Any web designer/developer worth their salt understands the importance of cross-browser compatibility. Admittedly, taking the time to check your work across multiple browsers can add up, especially when you come across the proverbial square peg not wanting to go in a round hold. (Note: The role of the square peg is more often than not being played by IE6 and the hole is played by our good friend web standards.)

But as important as it is to test for cross-browser compatibility, it’s not always an easy thing to do for most of us, especially when you’re looking to check your work in different operating systems and/or different versions of the same browser. I’m lucky that with my fulltime gig, through happenstance, I have both a PC and an iMac side by side so that I have that option to test on both. But more often than not, this isn’t always possible.

You Two Play Nice or I’ll Pull This Car Over

I think we’d all agree that the bastard of the bunch to test for is IE, version 6 to be exact. Now before IE7 rolled out we had to deal with just that one sinkhole of a browser, but now with both versions sharing a sizeable chunk of the market, we have to sometimes, inevitably, target the specific version. Now I don’t want to glaze over what it takes to do this, but since targeting a specific browser