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 However, developers still have to deal with the outdated IE6 and IE7.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 »