With the increase in standard, out of the factory screen resolution for computer displays from 800px by 600px to 1024px by 768px, web designers across the internets were freed to make use of a wider canvas on which to design beautiful websites. And we loved it. This is anything but news.
However, along with these changes, a minor oversight was exploited.
We must be getting close. I can almost taste it. Is it time to say au revoir, to IE6?
There are times when you wish there was a clean, elegant way to go about a thing and there are times, as we all know, when this just isn’t possible. Such, is my state of mind at present. We all know what it’s like to take something that is beautiful and clean, and have to [...]
* html body {display: none;} … I haven’t figured out why some think this hack is discriminatingGeorg
position: relativity
Ever wonder why applying a position: relative to an element in Internet Explorer can fix bizarre rendering problems? The standing theory, which is also a highly technical one, is that sometimes you just need to remind IE that [...]
Delivering under tight deadlines is pretty much what you’re in for, if you’re a web designer. Knowing how to handle it, is what will make you a designer of the web. As many times as I’ve wanted to pull my hair out with unrealistic deadlines and “last minutes”, I also get my adrenaline fix out [...]
Life under fire has been getting the best of me lately. If there’s one thing I learned doing web design, is that you have to be able to deliver your best under pressure. And more importantly, you have to know how and when to still make time for yourself. I wouldn’t think about complaining about [...]
Alpha PNG Backgrounds in IE
In the process of redesigning a site for a client, I stumbled into my long lost, woeful friend PNG. Actually, I shouldn’t be so hard on PNG. We all know who’s fault it really is. There are a ton of sources out there, offering solutions for the IE bug, but I [...]
Jeremy Anderson is a user experience and interaction web designer and developer, hailing out of San Francisco.
He is also a Founding Partner at Object Adjective.
