Browser quirks
A small browser quirk for IE6 where absolute positioning with the CSS right property is one pixel out when the parent container has an odd number of pixels.
Published in Browser quirks, CSS on Monday, September 7th, 2009
I wanted to document a bit of an edge case browser incompatibility that I found: that event handlers aren’t always run in the same order in IE as they do in other browsers. It’s a bit of a strange case where we were doing something not entirely sensible. :) There was an input box which [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
It’s ER night again tonight so I’m going to update with a totally dorky technical web thing I did today that I thought was interesting. :) I found a strange IE behaviour today in a sample I was looking at. The problem was with a javascript object that had a reference to a DOM object. [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Interesting IE observation: You can’t jump to anchors in otherwise empty table cells. This works: <tr> <td> <a name="myanchor"></a></td> </tr> This doesn’t: <tr> <td><a name="myanchor"></a></td> </tr> I know I’m doing terrible things to my markup to even want to put an anchor in an empty table cell.. :) Other people seem to [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
*sigh* This is a nasty little known problem with IE when creating radio buttons using document.createElement(). IE actually creates the buttons, but they can’t actually be selected by the user. The problem is that aparently IE doesn’t let you set the name attributes of elements after they’ve been created. If you update the name attribute, [...]
Published in Browser quirks on Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
