Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

IE8 is a vast improvement on IE6 in terms of rendering HTML and CSS; however now and again there still seem to be some oddities compared to other browsers. Having spent the best part of a day trying to debug the code which had been validated by  http://validator.w3.org/  (as XHTML 1.1 Strict  ) and  http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/  (as CSS 2.1), IE8 was still having trouble rendering the page and was drawing a div twice. Ultimately it boiled down to an anchor tag being closed in short form. i.e. <a id="someAnchor" />. After changing this to <a id="someAnchor"></a>, everything worked fine and was bang on again in IE8. Lesson learnt that if IE8 appears to be rendering incorrectly, check which tags are being closed in which way. Not saying this is the answer to every rendering issue in IE8 but it's something to look out for if HTML and CSS code is perfectly valid, rendering correctly in all other browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.),...

Here's a little tutorial about sorting out the colour bleed in Internet Explorer with CSS when using fieldsets and legends. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=DD9F3

When Google's web browser, Chrome , first came out, as quick and simple as it was, it seemed to lack a few of the extensions and features that were useful in Mozilla FireFox , especially for developers. Recently though, after having trouble with massive memory leaks in FireFox ( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak ), Chrome got another try out ( Internet Explorer still seems to take forever to load up and feels like its dominating the browsing experience). No surprises in Chrome's simplicity, speed and efficiency, and the way it neatly lets you get on with browsing the web. It also come with nifty little developer tools, showing download speeds, CSS/HTML structure, access to scripts, all of which can be found from the page button link as shown in the video below, using the Page button > Developer > Developer tools link (or key combination CTRL + SHIFT + I). As always it boils down to personal preference and it's good that there is this choice (nevermind the be...