Posted by: Paul on: June 27, 2008
Opera 9.5 is a nice upgrade, but I found that it’s rendering left a few things on one of the sites I look after a little out of whack. Off I went looking for a CSS filter for Opera 9.5 and came up with this gem:
@media all and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:10000), not all and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
/* 7.2 [...]
Posted by: Paul on: April 29, 2008
Along with dom traversal (ala CSS2), you can also use CSS2 and CSS3 selectors in jQuery. For example:
lb = $(‘a[rel="lightbox"]‘);
will get you all the anchor elements in the dom which have the rel=”lightbox” attribute. This, however:
lb = $(‘a[rel*="light"]‘);
will get you all the anchor elements in the dom which have the substring “light” in their rel [...]
Posted by: Paul on: April 28, 2008
Unfortunately, things don’t always render the same across all browsers (never have, likely never will). If, for some reason, you need to tweak things only in Opera 8 and 9, this CSS will do the trick:
Not my genius, but I can’t recall where I first found this so I can’t quote the source unfortunately.
/* target [...]
Posted by: Paul on: May 10, 2007
wrong: write 100 lines of code, test, spend an hour undoing your typo’s and logic bugs
right: write 5-10 lines of code, test, make easy fixes, repeat as often as needed until component is complete.
Posted by: Paul on: February 1, 2007
One rule I’ve learnt and relearnt over the last 5 years is the need to develop xhtml and css code in more then one browser from the very beginning of a project.
Often the temptation for me has been to stick with my development browser (Firefox with the ‘Web Developer Toolbar’ and ‘Firebug’ extensions) and worry [...]
Posted by: Paul on: January 31, 2007
CSS improvements in IE7 are a great step forward, but the box model calculation still seems a little wonky.
If you do need a filter for IE7 only, use:
* + html { }
For example, if you wanted a red border on your div, but a blue one in IE7 (for whatever tenuous reason), your CSS would [...]
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