CSS 3 Selectors
Just been reading this great article, CSS Selectors Explained, over at the 456 Barrea Street website. Been using CSS3 on an in-house project I’m working on but very much with the future in mind. The article is actually from early 2006 which I think demonstrates how slowly things are moving on with CSS3, it is still a working draft I know, and the popularity of Internet Explorer is hindering adoption too, but the selectors I’ve been using are really useful.
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Modern browsers for modern applications
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:00 PM
The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible…Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites.
I’ve been watching with some interest how much market share Chrome has been gaining, this could be a tactic to gain a greater user base for the Google browser, although plenty of big players have already dropped support for Internet Explorer 6. Either way, I’ll be glad to see the back of IE6, it’s really holding back progress in web development and has become sucha pain to support.
Browser Pain – IE Testing
Microsoft has released some new software that will be of interest to fellow web designers and developers out there, a programme called SuperPreview.
It’s a standalone application (in beta at the moment) that enables you to see how your websites will look across different versions of Internet Explorer without having to set up a Virtual Machine to run IE6, or another computer dedicated to running IE6.
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