I really hate Internet Explorer. It is mind boggling that a company as large as microsoft cant build a browser better than Firefox. I just wasted about 3 hours of my Sunday chasing IE bugs... Most of these problems where CSS problems on prior versions of IE (Internet Explorer), as of the writing of this article the current version of IE is 8. Todays rant is about how IE8 handles javascripting and ajax. Hopefully this post will help you avoid losing hours of youf life chasing IE ajax bugs like i did today. The last bug mentioned took me forever to figure out and left me dumbfounded. I could not believe that something so simple could cause IE to break.[Read More]

As a web designer, you hate getting the call, the dreaded call from a client telling you that your design "looks weird" on his side. As a designer you think how can this be possible? Your web design utilizes css. You have tested your design against all the major search engines and on different machines and operating systems in your office. You have even sent it the design off to friends and family to bask in your design awesomeness, but your client is still seeing something "weird" on his end.[Read More]

The large black line across the top represents the background of the div that the flash document sits in. For those new to CSS, I refer to the space as a whitespace because that is how this bug or issue has always been referred to.. It only showed up in IE8 not in Firefox (shocking right). The white bar below the black is supposed to be there to give an overlap effect of the pen in the flash piece. This is the css code of the div that is getting the space. I changed the background to black so that the space would stand out more.[Read More]