Tag Archives: MSIE7

The inherent flaw with MSIE8’s X-UA-Compatible “feature”

For more than a decade it’s been the web developer’s most frustrating challenge: different browsers rendering the same stuff in different ways. The problem is that there are no internet police to enforce the laws of the W3C… then again, the W3C has incomplete and ambiguous “laws” so it wouldn’t do much to enforce them. [...]

#FFFFFE, it’s the new white

While working on a website for my employer I ran into a cross-browser issue with MSIE (naturally). Ironically, it’s only a problem above (and not including) MSIE6. The :hover and :active state of the anchors in the top-level menu items should change text color and background color, then revert back when :link and :visited. In [...]