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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 [http://todaysmeet.com/]. My CSS is valid, but it doesn’t work quite

Chrome Is Not A Browser

If you somehow haven’t heard of it [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=chrome], Google’s Chrome [http://www.google.com/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

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 [http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/2991/autumn-concept-10/] waste kilobytes of HTML source on something that could be achieved

Work Pattern: Designing Web Sites

The premise of Design Patterns [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_(computer_science)] 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

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/

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 [http://feliciaday.net/blog/

Microsoft Listened

We all complained [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/ie8-and-version-targeting-70/], and Microsoft listened to the community: IE8 will now render in IE8-mode by default [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx] , and “developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that

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

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