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Has anyone seen this problem before and have any idea how to solve it? In firefox, the text wraps around both floats correctly. In IE6/7, the text only wraps around the second float. Read More...

Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in IE8 (as I discussed in a previous post ). “In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting ‘Standards’ mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s ‘IE7 Standards mode’ will... Read More...

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine into standards mode by targeting a specific browser version, something that was previously done by using a valid DOCTYPE. A lot of people, including Jeremy Keith, think this is a bad idea. Here are some of the more interesting points that have been raised in the discussion so far. “If IE8 acts like IE8 by default, then IE8 might break... Read More...

SelecTrucks Center Sites We launched two new Center Sites in November. Kansas City was a challenging design, with lots of absolute positioning, which caused a few problems when IE7 came out. The client was really excited about the puzzle theme. Birmingham is, I think, one of the best looking designs we've done. The diagonal navigation is really sweet. Updates to existing sites We helped out several clients with minor updates to their sites. In one case, we redesigned their homepage to emphasize... Read More...

SelecTrucks We're nearing the end of the SelecTrucks project, and only launched one site this month: Tampa . I really like the water in the design, with the little diver swimming through. Carrier We did some small projects for Carrier this month, mostly SEM tweaks. The cool part is that we added a media center, which will be going live soon. One of our designers, Ben, put a lot of work into getting a flash video player working, so that we can set up a cool XML-driven player, that will let the... Read More...

Dave Shea pointed out back in August that IE7 will ship with ClearType enabled , even on XP! Read More...

"It's a myth that you need a great client. It's possible to do great work for a terrible client -- if you're willing to extend the scope of the project indefinitely." -- Jeffrey Zeldman I already blogged about An Event Apart over on my personal blog, but I figured I should at least mention it here. Pop Art sent me to the conference along with my fellow CSS-man, Ryan, and we had a great time. I went all nerdly-fanboy and got my photo taken with Zeldman and Meyer, and I introduced... Read More...

In case you haven't heard, IE7 is going to be released as a priority upgrade , which means that it will be automatically downloaded for most users. Not everyone installs all priority updates , of course, and there will be usual tool to allow businesses to block the download if they're not ready to upgrade. Nonetheless, this means we'll see much higher adoption rates that we were expecting. The interesting thing now is reading the debate going on in the community over how long we should... Read More...

Ryan pointed me to an excellent interview with Håkon Wium Lie , the man who proposed the concept of CSS to the W3C. The interview covers a wide range, from why certain things work certain ways, to his enthusiasm for microformats. He also places the blame for CSS difficulties squarely in Microsoft's court for not fully supporting CSS2 in IE6, which he says they chose not to do for political reasons. Read More...

Dave Shea from Mezzoblue wrote a nice article over on Vitamin titled " Stop Hacking, or Be Stopped ." It does a nice job of encapsulating the arguments against using CSS hacks to target IE, since IE7 will break most of these hacks. Instead, Shea recommends the same thing Microsoft recommends: conditional comments. Personally, I resisted these for a long time. I don't like proprietary markup, but I have to admit that aside from the ugly factor of having a chunk of code in my xhtml that only exists... Read More...