Sunday, March 29, 2009

Internet Explorer fun and games

This is a kind of mixed bag posting on a few IE issues I came across recently:

IE 8 Released
So, IE 8 was released recently. At the SXSW CSS3 wars talk, Sylvain Galineau of Microsoft spoke about the ~7000 w3c CSS2 tests MS have passed as part of their standards push for IE 8. Internet Explorer gets a lot of bad press (man, I'm sick of basing IE), but hopefully this will be a turning point for future releases of Internet Explorer. Cool to hear that IE 8 is now the most CSS 2.1 compliant browser on the market. Wonder when it'll be pushed as an automatic update.

IE 8 Released - my pages look like sh1t
Buy yourself some time with the IE 7 meta-tag:


<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>


Checkboxes
So, dynamically creating checkboxes in IE 6 is a little different to every other browser I develop for. For whatever reason, I couldn't get my checkbox to be checked by default. That is until I found out about the defaultChecked property.

Apparently, if you try to set the checked property of a checkbox before you add it to the DOM in IE 6, IE6 drops the checked property and sets the checkbox as unchecked by default. But, if you use the defaultChecked property, it'll heed your intentions and hey presto, your checkbox is checked.

Web SuperPreview
Speaking of IE, Web Super Preview looks like a good tool. Kinda like IE on steroids.

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