Matthew Knott
This site is a self-contained low down on what's going on in my life, what I'm working on, what I'm thinking about, and how I'm feeling about life in general.
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
Messing around with a bit of code, I was trying to do a quick floating window to receive some ajax-built content. This was just a quickie proof of concept thing rather than anything serious.
Anyway, the div was all over the place in IE7 compared to Firefox, and it had issues with elements showing from behind the div.
I racked my brain for hours, setting the z-index, trying this, that and the other. In the end, I added a simple:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
After this, things started working! I couldn't believe that something so simple would affect my CSS so drastically, so let that be a warning to you.
Tags: css Doctype Div Positioning Absolute Relative
Saturday, 31 May 2008
The HTML equivalent of an Anderson Shelter, a meta tag that makes IE8 render websites in an IE7 compatibility mode, has been released by Microsofts Nick MacKechnie in his blog this week.
I'm not sure whether I should say "thanks for the heads up" or "why the hell should I have to?". I mean, my site is standards based, I specify my doctype, and there should only be one way of displaying that document.
So yet again, after spending years slowly adopting web standards, Microsoft has yet again come out with a version of internet explorer that adds their stubborn feature set, prioritised above features that make it easier for developers to develop cross-browser compatible sites.
I really did think that this was Microsofts chance to build on the progress they had made with IE7, but no such luck. A couple of months ago I tried out IE8, and when I hit IBM's W3 intranet, All I got was a little blue bar at the top of the page, and nothing else. The majority of sites I've looked at with IE8 do not handle well, so this meta tag is going to be compulsary.
Perhaps Microsoft should absorb the cost that will be incurred by local business to have this line of code inserted into every page of their website, there bust be billions of pages of markup that will require changing, so profitable times ahead for web developers.
Tags: Standards Microsoft Web_Standards IE7 IE8 Developers Selfish Doctype W3C Stubborn
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