Oh IE, How I Despise Thee

Today have gained some new knowledge about one of the many quirks with Internet Explorer. Indeed, the problem I was having involved a relatively positioned container, and an element floating inside of it. It displayed fine in the nice browsers, but it seemingly disappeared in Internet Explorer.

As it turned out, the problem was that IE6 was rendering the floated layer under the relative container layer. At least, that’s what I’m assuming it was doing — since I could click on a link in the floated element; the link was in the spot it should have been, which lead me to believe that it was under the relative container.

That one little line

position: relative;

really messed up floating elements throughout the site, and it wasn’t even supposed to be in the CSS. Indeed, I forgot to remove it, assuming it to be harmless.

Arg. Simply “arg”.

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April Fools

I really like companies that can indulge my immaturity and make light of April Fools. Google, I nod at you. Indeed, they set a fine example with their 2007 April Fools gags: Gmail Paper, and GiSP.

It’s undeniably awesome and makes large companies, such as Google feel closer to the people. However I’m sure there’s someone out there that actually thinks @Media 2007 might be taking place in Antarctica, or that Google will give you free WiFi thanks to fibre-optic cable in municipal sewage lines.

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