Making Internet Explorer HTML 5 Ready

I’m going to come right out and say that it’s likely to take IE years before we see native HTML 5 support. However, that doesn’t mean we should ignore HTML 5 until IE gets with the program.

If you’ve tried to mess around with HTML 5 in IE, you may have noticed that the new elements do not work correctly with css. Luckily for us, we can use a tiny bit of Javascript to trick IE into rending the HTML 5 elements correctly.

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Fixing Common CSS Issues In IE6 and IE7

As it turns out, Microsoft really doesn’t care about web standards at all. It has taken them way too many years to adopt the basics of CSS2 correctly. Now they are trying to expand that with IE8. However, developers still have to deal with the outdated IE6 and IE7. Using min-width is completely pointless unless your user base only uses good browsers. Read the rest of this entry »

Quickly Creating Javascript Tooltips

I’ve noticed that a lot of sites do not use tooltips as much as they should. There are many places on a site where tooltips would really be nice. One example of using them correctly is TheSixtyOne. They use a nice tooltip when you are about to bump a song up. It quickly lets you know how many points it will cost and how many times you have bumped it. This post will hopefully inspire at least one of you to use tooltips more often.

The solution I have decided to use is UniTip from Unit Interactive. I believe they have the best solution to quickly setting up tooltips. Download the zip they provide and we should be ready to go.
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New Look, Same Greatness

I decided that the old theme was too dark after getting a few messages about it. Hopefully this one will suit everyone. As you can tell, it is very simplistic. If you have any comments about this one, let me know right away. Oh and this was created completely by me, no pre-made themes this time.

Posted on: August 24th, 2008
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