Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Taming Firefox’s Button Element

Posted by steve in Code, Design on October 5th, 2009

Recently I came across a little cross browser bug concerning the “button” element that caused some headaches between Webkit browsers and Firefox. The button element can be a great tool that is generally under utilized. It offers many more flexible options than the “input” element and degrades more gracefully than the “a” element. A great writeup can be found on the Particle Tree blog (Creators of the amazing form creation tool, Wufoo).

The problem I was encountering was when I was adding a span inside the button for design resigns and realized that no matter what I did Firefox was adding a…

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IE8 Browser Showdown With Safari 4 and Firefox 3

Posted by steve in Featured, browsers on March 19th, 2009

IE8 is here! Some of you may be ignoring that exclamation mark thinking, “Great, now I have 3 IE’s to cross browser test”. Or do you? Since IE8 officially launched at 9am Pacific time this morning I spent the next 3 hours upgrading Vista with the 90 or so upgrades it asked me to do before I could finally install IE8. I then proceeded to ask myself that same question every web developer out there is thinking, “How big of a pain in the ass is this IE going to be”. So I did a few test and benchmarks just…

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