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Making IE Standards Compliant
"Dean Edwards has takenit upon himself to make Internet Explorer W3C compliant. How? Well, itisn't by patching the application, as you might suspect. He's created a stylesheet, dubbed 'IE7' thatuses DHTML to load and parse style sheets into a form that IE canunderstand. Just include the style sheet in your HTML pages, and thingsshould render correctly. The complexity of the CSS transformations isreally amazing and shows off the power of this stuff.""
CSS Debuging Bookmarklet
Andy Budd points out what could be the greatest bookmarklet since. well CSS."I came across this handy user stylesheet and associated favelet the other day. The stylesheet basically outlines and names all the page elements with an ID or class.There are a few favelets out there that do a similar thing (see my bookmarklets page), but they mostly use the border property. The thing that’s nice about this stylesheet is that it uses the outline property. Unlike borders, outlines take up no space, so using them for testing can be really useful as they don’t disrupt the layout of your page. Outline doesn’t work in the “usual suspect” browsers, but does work in Safari. As such, if your a OS X based web developer, this stylesheet and the associated stylesheet toggle favelet could come in useful..."
This bookmarklet could be a great tool for any beginner who wants to make changes to my themes, but doesn't know which class goes to what element.
IE Factor, Exemplified
Doug Bowman has posted a specific example of the IE FactorMicrosoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
Found on slashdot:"spacehug writes "In a recent Microsoft Knowledge Base article, they provide 'Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.' These steps include always using SSL/TLS, typing 'JScript commands' in the address bar, and typing in URLs instead of clicking links! I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!" "
That's a serious bummer. Wasn't the browser created to release us from the tyranny of hand typing addresses? They might as well tell people to download Mozilla and wait until the problem is fixed.
Are the Clark04 folks referrer spamming?
So I've noticed that the Clark04.com site ranked pretty high in my referrers listing yesterday. Buoyed by the thought that I was being talked about by the clark folks I visited their site to see what the rigamarole was about. But alas there was nothing, no mention of yours truly. So now I'm left wondering if the clark folks are "referrer spamming".