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The use of conditions within the browser is often used to decide which style sheet to load depending on the type of browser. For example we can use this code to load a particular style sheet when the browser is Internet Explorer 6:

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Among the various funny "interpretations" that Internet Explorer 6 can do with HTML / CSS, that of the "double margin" is certainly the most tedious and often. In practice (hear, hear ...) Good Microsoft browser can - mysteriously - to double margins on items that are set to float! : As such the following CSS applied to a div with the id box :

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I always find some "ill" when tackling the subject "compatibility between browsers." Also, and I have yet to understand the real reason, of all the browsers I know the most "annoying" him remains: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6! Unfortunately, the release of IE 6 is still in circulation and there are frequent reports of problems when viewing pages.

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Here is the response to the dramatic incompatibilities with different browsers currently available. Browsershots.org is a service - free and open source for now - that provides an easy way to check if a site is displayed in the same way on different platforms and different browsers.

Thanks to a small server-farm home, the authors of this useful service to provide video output of the screens generated by your web, so you can verify the correctness of the interpretation HTML / CSS on different machines and browsers: PLD Linux 2.0 ( Ac), Windows 2003 (Server), Windows NT 5.1 (XP), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and others.

The site is really well looked after, with a lot of wiki documentation, sources, roadmap and timeline. . You can also view the latest screenshots, the state-of-queue process and the status of the factories. The only sour note, but surmountable, is the time required for the generation of screen-shot, a little 'slow! However, it is a big help to the web developer to verify the correctness of their work, without having to install any browser and / or virtual machines to live - for example - Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Virtually all browsers are supported by FireFox to Safari. Interesting is the possibility of verifcare IE6 and IE7, along with versions 5.01 and 5.5.
Well done!

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It is time to take a decision. The year 2007 is well underway and it is useless to indulge further. Microsoft Vista is coming, and 2008 will be his year. Windows XP is about to give way to the last born at Gates, last - among others - of its kind.
So it is obvious - if someone does not realize it was still - some urgency in updating the major tool of the century (if not the millennium), or the browser.

Recently released as an automatic update - but optional for reasons of monopoly and antitrust - Microsoft Intrenet Explorer 7 for owners of Windows becomes an obvious choice. The update is strongly recommended especially for reasons of accessibility on the Web and sucurezza The discovery of flaws in the code is not new, but recent versions are known to be less vulnerable to attack because hackers have not had time to find the holes from which imply hacks and worms.

Here are 5 good reasons then, I think, to go immediately to the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7):

1. It is the next generation of browsers, so better to just get familiar with its new features
2. Improved stability and security
3. Better care about updates and add-in support
4. Improved navigability on the Web, where the technology used in IE7 is close to that already present in most other popular browsers like FireFox, Opera, etc. ... so - finally - be able to properly view some Web sites, now navigable only with FireFox

Why be left behind?

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Conitnua to astonish the total difference in yield between different browsers on the market. IE7 handles PNG (8-bit or 24) in a manner different from Firefox. Even Opera is not free from some strange event in this regard. In particular, the PNG used as background are made differently from IE7, Opera and FireFox. This is all well behaved and in this regard it is time to appoint browser's "century"! Congratulations to the development team.

IE7 creates a nice cutting effect of a PNG image used as background repeat-x. If you try to create an image of 200 × 200 pixels with a gradient from black (0 × 000000) to gray (0xEEEEEE) vertically and placed in the body in the CSS as a background orizzonale repeat (repeat-x), setting the background body color 0xEEEEEE - or the end of the gradient, you will notice that only the detachment makes it perfectly FireFox, IE7 and Opera show a nice cutting effect (but slightly different !!!): in practice we see the end of our image 200 × 200 and the beginning of the flat color background.

One way to solve the problem is to save our image to GIF ...

But the NPCs were not supported by IE7?

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And 'the hour - for Web developers - to take drastic measures against the obstinate craze of the incompatibility between browsers. We propose, therefore, a sympathetic boycott of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 that, after years of development, blogs, white papers and referendum, continues to exhibit pronounced symptoms of chronic incompatibility. Sorry in the end always criticize the work of "colleagues" in Redmond, but the defects found in the latest release of Internet Explorer are so macroscopic that can not be perceived as mere oversights.
The most worrying thing is the presence of high-profile bugs already present in IE version 6! You can not, therefore, to accept such behavior by those who have a monopoly of the undisputed most popular Internet browser. Unfortunately, in fact, Internet Explorer 6 is still the most used browser, FireFox although in recent years has proudly path on his way to success all deserved.
Just then, with Patch HTML, CSS and JavaScript (or JScript?)!

All the same browser?

Some argue that a perfect compatibility between browsers will never be reached. In fact, what is the real difference between Internet Explorer and FireFox? To date, the functions of feeds, Zoom, tabs, etc. ... are present on almost all browsers on the market, from Safari to Opera. So which one to choose? Maybe you should not choose! It 'just that what is lacking. Today, we are all forced to choose, either as a Web Developer that as an end-user. The experience, in fact, teaches us that the site is navigable with Safari, but the other only works with FireFox. In practice, on your machine, you should have at least 3 / 4 browsers to make sure you surf the Internet with confidence nell'immmensità!
That seems really absurd!
And the best part is that this is already done!
If you add a site to your favorites you have to remember to export it in the other four browsers, or if you are ever to sail tomorrow with a different browser than you do not find the link that you were - rightly - is stored. If a certificate store of your bank? The lists of feeds? In short, this is a game in the massacre, not computer!
We should first of all settle once and for all the question of visual browsers (CSS / HTML / XML, ...) and the compatibility scripting (JavaScript / JScript). Without this, then, amaze the world with a browser capable of having its own characteristics and not a copy of those of another!

Each of us is free - or should be free - to install the browser on your PC you deem appropriate. The issue is that this freedom is denied by the incompatibility of the browser and the Web Developer work becomes tiring, expensive (in terms of time and money) and not very efficient, with risks still hidden bugs and other flaws!

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In Redmond must have some big problem on the uptake! It is wonderfully absurd that at the end of 2006 there are still the basis for a - well - approximate compatibility between IE7 and Firefox! Despite the official release - albeit with a limited set of locations - 7 of Internet Explorer, the page rendering engine still suffers from obvious defects in programming! Without going into many details averted list only two high profile bugs are still present in this official release!

First of all NPCs are made ​​differently from GIF ... and, worse still, in absolute position undergo strange contours depending on how you turn IE! Obvious bug? O madness of some junior developers?

On the CSS pseudo class: hover is still not supported on all TAG, although many take for the blog running! But on what system? See W3C ...
A simple p: last-child is virtually ignored! Microsoft has rightly supported p: first-child. Now, if it implements the first to implement what it costs you even last? Mystery ...

The apex of the absurd, then, is obtained with bulleted lists! Hear hear! IE7 behaves exactly like IE6! Series: you have brought with flawed code? Too many copy and paste of course! If a definitive list of the canonical UL LI and a custom list as a point, do not try to use a float LI element, the image disappears mysteriously, just as they did on IE6! The one, needless to say, to make things right is the usual - old - FireFox!

Blog of IE7, there are many complaints. Although it appreciated the efforts of the Microsoft behemoth to start a blog during the development of software such as IE7, however, remains the question of the effectiveness of this move. They really listened to the requests of users-developers? The IE7 blog has been opened too late?

Once again we just have to wait for a service-pack next adventure ...

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Version 7 of Microsoft's browser was (finally) released in English (was released almost simultaneously the release of FireFox 2). In short - through the Windows Automatic Update service - will be installed on millions of machines, such as system patches. Someone has already criticized this move by Microsoft umpteenth shouting misconduct. Web developers, however, more interested in knowing what will Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and how they should comportarso in the development of websites

The release through Windows Update is scheduled for early November! It follows that within a week will be nice that IE6 buried. Web developers will have to upgrade your PC of course, leaves them without a version 6 of which perform the canonical test of compatibility.

It is clear that those who - like us - it's manic updates and absolutely must have the latest software release, is between a rock and a hard place. In addition - as is obvious - IE6 is dead! And about time too! Candidate for a browser to be sure - if ever there will be a - in the near future (next day) is definitely IE7, since the latter will undergo patches (service packs) security.

Developers understand that IE6 is abandoned! Additionally, Microsoft has explicitly advised to move urgently to version 7, if there was any need to repeat it. Web developers must adopt a machine to test with IE6? By not update it? It would have suffered attacks from all sides and avoid going on the net?

The most obvious solution - and beneficial to Microsoft - is that developers and end users to pass immediately to IE7, whether they like it or not!

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