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How to use @font-face to avoid faux-italic and bold browser styles

Nov 29 2010

Did you know that if you declare a custom font using @font-face, the browser will try to fake the bold and italic styles if it can’t find them? This is a clever little feature that avoids a scenario where a … Keep reading

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How to use jQuery to target CSS at older browsers

Mar 17 2010

On a recent project where I had to support Firefox 3.6, 3.0 and 2.0, I had to find a way to target a specific version of the browser due to differences in the rendering engine. It turns out the easiest … Keep reading

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Google Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer

Sep 25 2009

Long story short, Google released a plugin for IE 6, 7 and 8 that will run Google Chrome (which uses webkit) inside a frame in the IE browser. Now IE6 can be standards-compliant, and all versions of IE get blazing … Keep reading

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IE8 Compatibility Mode and IE7 are Not the Same Thing

Sep 15 2009

Just so we’re clear, testing your website in an actual copy of IE7, and testing in IE8′s Compatibility Mode are not the same thing. Compatibility Mode does an acceptable job of imitating IE7, and for the average user who’s just … Keep reading

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Mac vs PC Firefox 3 Add Bookmark Dialog

Jul 07 2008

One major annoyance between the Mac and PC versions of Firefox 3 is the position of the “Done” button on the Add Bookmark dialog. On a Mac, the button is on the right. On a PC, it’s on the left. … Keep reading

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Version Targeting and IE8 Followup

Mar 04 2008

Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in IE8 (as I discussed in a previous post). “In light of the Interoperability Principles, as … Keep reading

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Version Targeting and IE8

Feb 20 2008

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine into standards mode by targeting a specific browser version, something that was previously done by … Keep reading

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41 Useful CSS Links

Oct 23 2007

I was clearing out my bookmarks recently, and noticed that I had a pretty large collection of web development and CSS-related bookmarks that I never refer to any more, but might be useful to people who are just getting started … Keep reading

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Tables Don’t Have a HEIGHT Attribute

Oct 21 2001

I am absolutely stunned. For a few months now, I’ve been discovering that some of my websites don’t render correctly on Netscape. Now, like any web designer, I’m aware that none of the major browsers render HTML exactly according to … Keep reading

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