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Google Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer

Posted by Scott on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 9:42 am. 1 Comment.

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 ...

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IE8 Compatibility Mode and IE7 are Not the Same Thing

Posted by Scott on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 3:34 pm. 0 Comments.

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 ...

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Intelligent Defaults Save Time

Posted by Scott on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 12:41 pm. 0 Comments.

Have you ever been a regular at a coffee shop? The barista knows you by name, and every morning when you come by, she's already ...

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Who’s Afraid of HTML Email?

Posted by Scott on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:30 am. 2 Comments.

Anyone who tells you creating HTML email is easy has either never done it, or is lying. Inexperienced designers tend to think, "Oh, no problem, ...

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Mac vs PC Firefox 3 Add Bookmark Dialog

Posted by Scott on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 1:02 pm. 0 Comments.

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 ...

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Version Targeting and IE8 Followup

Posted by Scott on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 9:19 am. 0 Comments.

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 ...

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Version Targeting and IE8

Posted by Scott on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 12:06 am. 0 Comments.

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 ...

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The Email Standards Project

Posted by Scott on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 8:43 am. 0 Comments.

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It ...

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An Event Apart Seattle: The Day Before

Posted by Scott on Monday, September 18, 2006 at 8:43 am. 1 Comment.

Yesterday, Ryan and I got off the train in Seattle around 4pm. We caught a bus up to Hotel Andre, where we found we had ...

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