Archive for the 'Browsers' Category

Here is a really cool Sahaj toolbar to download. It’s a repository of all Sahaja knowledge online. I can see myself spending all day with it. This is really neat.

There are times when we want a specific style or stylesheet or a javascript to be rendered only in IE and not other browsers such as FireFox. If this is so, then you can do so by adding following if and endif declarations in the HTML.

When you use CSS background images that are clickable, you must have come across image flicker problem in IE. It’s very annoying. So, hopefully here’s the solution that might work: http://dean.edwards.name/my/flicker.html.

Majority of the web page layout require side navigation column and the content column to expand vertically equal. This can be a challenge when we prefer to use div rather than tables for layout. I explained one of the most useful hacks that create an appearance of two columnar div’s expanding vertically equal to each other. However, there are times when we actually want both the columns to have equal height.

HTML font size is specified in CSS stylesheet using pixels, ems or keywords. I have rarely found keywords much useful. Using pixels guarantees control over the look of the web page but the issue is that if we use pixels for font size, then the web page is not as accessible in IE.

FireFox is the best thing that happened in the browser industry. I am a compassionate FireFox user. However, I do not disregard Internet Explorer at all. As a HTML coder, I find diversity in browsers a blessing. This is because when one browser forgives an error the other browser will display it. Hence, it’s all good! Here, I want to recommend following FireFox extensions that are helpful to a web developer.