Comments on: IE quirks revisited http://www.metaplanes.net/babel/2005/03/31/ie-quirks-revisited/ a glimpse into the chaotic mind Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:15:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: M.E. Patterson http://www.metaplanes.net/babel/2005/03/31/ie-quirks-revisited/#comment-37 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:45:09 +0000 http://www.metaplanes.net/babel/2005/03/31/ie-quirks-revisited/#comment-37 Standard-compliant CSS designer here -- First off, if you really want to be slick, I recommend you google around on the CSS "box model." Learning that suddenly makes CSS make so much more sense, especially margins and padding and collapsing divs under IE. Blech. Secondly, yes, IE is a big pain in the ass. Let's not even get into the (going on 4 years now) failure to support alpha in PNGs. I discovered a great onMouseUp() dhtml bug the other day... apparently if you use that on an input element (say, a submit button) that is set to visibility:hidden after the onmouseup() -- example, a dissapearing login box -- it will freeze IE. Works fine in moz, but IE barfs. Fun fun. Standard-compliant CSS designer here –

First off, if you really want to be slick, I recommend you google around on the CSS “box model.” Learning that suddenly makes CSS make so much more sense, especially margins and padding and collapsing divs under IE. Blech.

Secondly, yes, IE is a big pain in the ass. Let’s not even get into the (going on 4 years now) failure to support alpha in PNGs. I discovered a great onMouseUp() dhtml bug the other day… apparently if you use that on an input element (say, a submit button) that is set to visibility:hidden after the onmouseup() — example, a dissapearing login box — it will freeze IE. Works fine in moz, but IE barfs. Fun fun.

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