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The Problem

While working on an update for Once Upon a Bride’s handmade jewellery website, I had to overcome a certain bug or problem in Internet Explorer that caused images loaded into Loader Components to render incorrectly and scale incorrectly, usually with incorrect width and height. This was occurring after loading about 12 - 15 images.

So instead of loading them all at once, I made it load only eight images, and let the users view a page of eight at a time. The only problem I had was clearing the old thumbnails before loading the new ones. (more…)

We’ve all seen dropdown / popup menu lists on websites before, and generally they’re extremely useful because they save space, but offer extra functionality. Sometimes, though they’re tricky to implement. I remember doing a image-only popout menu for the Lonsdale Views, who offer accommodation in Point Lonsdale and it was more difficult than expected - First, there was Internet Explorer’s lack of support for “:hover” and then there was Internet Explorer’s z-index issue. Now that I’ve got a blog, I thought I’d publish a how-to guide for valid, accessible semantic HTML and CSS dropdown menus… (more…)

The Norwegian company behind the web browser Opera - a long-time competitor of Internet Explorer, has filed a complaint to the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s operating system Windows and it’s bias towards the Internet Explorer browser, which fails to properly follow the accepted web standards. (more…)