CSS Tables come to the party

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 24 October, 2008 to the technology subset

Possibly one of the most eye-catching, and alarmingly, titled articles I have seen in a while, Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong, a primer in the execution and use of CSS tables, by Rachel Andrew at Digital Web Magazine.
CSS tables solve all the problems encountered when using absolute positioning or floats to create multi-column [...]

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Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 28 February, 2008 to the technology subset

Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8
After all the talk of IE8’s version targeting feature, web developers will soon be able to see it in action, with the pending release of the Internet Explorer 8 beta.
Microsoft executives are expected to reveal further details about the browser’s features at the software maker’s upcoming Mix conference [...]

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Doctype switching for IE 8

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 26 February, 2008 to the technology subset

Doctype switching for IE 8
Rather than go down the version targeting path Microsoft proposes, why not “make doctype switching stricter” asks Roger Johansson.
An idea that makes much more sense than forcing standards aware developers to opt in to opt out was put forward in WaSP Round Table: IE8’s Default Version Targeting Behavior. The idea [...]

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Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 21 February, 2008 to the technology subset

Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?
Jeffrey Zeldman on enlightened developers verses unenlightened developers, Internet Explorer 6 verses Internet Explorer 7, and the case for Version Targeting in Internet Explorer 8.
When IE’s compliance leaped forward with IE7, at least temporarily satisfying Microsoft’s first customer group, the badly authored sites created by the second customer group stopped working [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Standardsville: The IE8 Opt-in Debate

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 5 February, 2008 to the technology subset

Fear and Loathing in Standardsville: The IE8 Opt-in Debate
If you’re fed up with all the talk about the new version targeting “feature” of Internet Explorer 8… I’d say get used to it. Perhaps you’d prefer to read about the Microsoft Yahoo! merger instead?
In other words, I think we’ll be hearing a LOT more about [...]

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Legacy

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 4 February, 2008 to the technology subset

Legacy.
A great analysis of the new “version targeting” feature of Internet Explorer 8, and a look at the reasons behind the decision of the IE development team to include it in the new browser.
There’s only one space left in the market where IE can still claim that bloated 95%+ market share: corporate intranets. But lately [...]

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Has Internet Explorer Just Shot Itself in the Foot?

Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 26 January, 2008 to the technology subset

Has Internet Explorer Just Shot Itself in the Foot?
London-On-Sea designer Andy Budd weighs into the Internet Explorer 8 version targeting debate with perhaps the best write up on the subject so far (as far as I am concerned) in terms of clarity, and humour.
This idea has come about because Microsoft are worried about “breaking the [...]

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