X-UA-InCompatible
And Microsoft does it again by making their proprietary X-UA-Compatible tag completely incompatible with current browser behaviour...
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IE6 fucking up BASE (again)?
Beginning of this week we noticed a rather dramatic increase of the popularity of our forum, or at least so it seemed. Pageview counts were up from an average of 800.000 a day to over a million spiking at 1.5 million last Monday. Surely this couldn't be right...
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HTML5: the war on the mandatory 'alt'
I don't think there is one subject that has had so many attention on the html-public mailinglist as the alt-attribute for the IMG-element. It's a regular warzone with the pragmatic on one side and the accessibilitas on the other. Main question is: should (a small part of) accesibility requirements be forced by means of a machine-checkable syntax-addition in the HTML5 specification?
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IE8: Operation (now silently) Aborted
The MSIE team proudly blogged about the 'fix' they made in IE8 for the dreaded "operation aborted" error that has plagued and confused many front-end developers (and end-users) the past decade or so.
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The versioning switch's default is incorrect
In fact, the whole versioning switch idea is bad to begin with. If you still don't understand why after my previous blog-entries and after having read for instance Jeremy Keith's reasoning on AListApart (and failed to see the flaws in Jeffrey Zeldman's entry) here's a break-down of the arguments against the versioning switch and against the proposed default (== IE7 mode):
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