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Stop Supporting IE6

As a community, as a whole, web designers and developers need to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6. Now. Completely. I’ve been thinking a lot about browser compatibility as I’ve been working on Today’s Meet. My CSS is valid, but it doesn’t work quite right in IE6.

Browsers

Chrome Is Not A Browser

If you somehow haven’t heard of it, Google’s Chrome is a neat, quick, Acid2-compliant “browser” designed to work with web applications, not web pages. Chrome certainly looks like a modern browser, with tabs along the top and an address bar and a “Most visited” home screen, it will

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Organizing CSS

Looking at WordPress themes usually makes me cringe. It’s as if there was a memo on semantic markup and the community of WP developers didn’t get it. Some themes waste kilobytes of HTML source on something that could be achieved with 75% less markup. Some use blatantly non-compliant

Accessibility

Work Pattern: Designing Web Sites

The premise of Design Patterns is that similar problems have similar solutions. In the same vein, I propose this Work Pattern a set of common steps I use when I create a web site, and maybe you can use, too. Elements and Outline My first step is usually to create

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The W3C Sucks

“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.” If you want to remain the standard-setting body for the web, promise new recommendations, never deliver. ![CSS 2.1 is not even a published recommendation. Off with their (the W3C) heads.](http://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/wp-content/uploads/

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The New Blog

I made myself sit down today and finish work on the blog design. I am very happy with how it came out. This design is a hybrid, pulling elements from some of better-looking sites and blogs. The three-column layout was inspired by Felicia Day’s “Flog” and Problogger, the thin

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Microsoft Listened

We all complained, and Microsoft listened to the community: IE8 will now render in IE8-mode by default, and “developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly.” Obviously, this is good news for all forward-looking, standards-aware, progressively-enhancing developers out there. But

Browsers

IE8 and Version Targeting

Two months after the whole of the internet has had their say, I thought I’d throw some new kindling on the fire of Internet Explorer 8’s version-targeting mechanism. It’s crap. The key issue is the default behavior: if I never change my server configuration or every page

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CSS: Good; Everything Else: Bad

Images, flash, frames. These are the “traditional” methods for making a web site “more interesting” or “better looking.” But these hold-overs from the AOL era are the bane of bandwidth, text-only browsers, and non-visual users. HTML, of course, was originally written to define the structure of a web page, never