I was just thinking about this brief exchange over on Dan’s blog , as well as some recent stuff I’ve been dealing with at work, and realizing that the endless stream of Internet Explorer security vulnerabilities is actually a tremendous blessing to us web developers.
Here’s why: While IE6’s implementation of web standards is still woefully inadequate, it’s certainly miles ahead of their 5.x versions, and I don’t even want to talk about any versions before that. Thankfully, the severity of the flaws in these earlier versions has basically made it a requirement for every Windows user to keep automatic updates on, and always get the latest patches and upgrades to IE. No one in their right mind would run a Windows box without keeping up on the patches these days, just because there are so many exploits out there.
This has the pleasant side effect of web designers being able to safely limit their testing of their pages to IE6, since anyone running...
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CSS: multiple class selectorsFrom: freepressblog.org
Post Date: 2006-05-10 13:00:12
With the recent discussion of CSS style rules and quirks, I thought I’d mention one of my favorite CSS features that I’ve been making a lot of use of recently: multiple class selectors.
This is one CSS2 addition that isn’t mentioned much in CSS books (at least that I’ve seen), although most recent browsers do support it - all the “good” ones and IE, too. :)
According to the specification , you can apply multiple class attributes to any el...
more Once in a blue moonFrom: freepressblog.org
Post Date: 2006-05-10 12:29:40
In a rare non-technical, non-political post, I thought I’d let you know that my iron was not working today. Actually, it hasn’t been working for a couple days now, but I’ve just been getting by with wearing shirts and pants that don’t necessarily need to be ironed before you wear them, but the situation was exacerbated today, because I was down to having only clean clothes remaining that require ironing. So, I’m wearing a wrinkly shirt today.
PS - Don’t ev...
more So far, so goodFrom: freepressblog.org
Post Date: 2006-05-10 12:15:00
Four spam-free days and counting, since I implemented my new spam prevention system . This is pretty good, especially since Google just recently started indexing my site again (long story, for another time) and that has led to a lot more page views, as well as seemingly more incoming spam attempts.
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