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@media and the WCAG2

I was waiting for the WCAG2 smack down at this week’s @media conference in London. The stage was set for some serious smack talk and WWF style-insults. Heck, Joe Clark was even mentioned at least a half dozen times.

But a surprising thing happened on stage. The presenters, Gez [...]

I’ve been able to narrow down my problem with IE7b2 and background sprites. However, I still have not been able to create a stripped down test page that consistently mis-behaves. So my observations, while not scientific, could save you some hours of debugging.
Internet Explorer 7beta2 is not treating transparent png background images correctly. It sees [...]

Debugging IE7beta can become tedious when you need to continualy install, reboot, uninstall, reboot, etc to switch between IE6 and IE7b2 for testing. Jon Galloway has created a great method to run IE7 as a self contained browser. This will save you many hours in rebooting to test between the browsers. I’ve been using it [...]

How good is IE7? I was wondering about that today as I reloaded it to do another batch of bug fixing. The proof may be in your CSS pudding.
We are using conditional comments to import either ie6.css or ie7.css to control our hacks.

<! –[if IE 7]>

<link href=“/css/ie7.css” type=“text/css” rel=“stylesheet” media=“all”/>

<![endif]–>

<! –[if lte IE [...]

I came across an issue with Internet Explorer 7 beta displaying the rating stars incorrectly in Yahoo! Tech. After doing some testing, I realized the browser was measuring the sprite image from the bottom up, rather than the top down. This is a significant issue. I had to create a new set of rules [...]