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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
*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, [...]
