Browser Issues
Conditional comments for iPhone
You're probably familiar with IE's conditional comments. They allow us to feed special code to that special browser to overcome its many bugs and deficiencies.
Is there something similar for iPhone? Not exactly, but we can achieve the same end:
<!--[if !IE]><!--> <link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="iphone.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <!--<![endif]-->
Three essential Firefox extensions for web developers
Firefox is beloved by web developers for its compliance with W3C standards, its open-source nature, and its general awesomeness. But its vast library of genuinely useful extensions and Greasemonkey scripts is surely a big part of the attraction, too. Here are three that I couldn't live without.
Styling horizontal rules in Internet Explorer 6 & 7
Scott Klarr has a nice post about the difficulties of styling horizontal rules with CSS—owing mainly, of course, to problems in Internet Explorer.
In short, IE 6 and 7 insist on putting a border around horizontal rules, no matter how you set up your stylesheet.
Scott offers a simple but elegant solution which relies on jQuery. That's fine if you're already using jQuery in your project, but if you're not, it's hard to justify the extra payload to fix a simple cosmetic issue.
I've written a standalone version of Scott's script. At less than 350 bytes, it's a very lightweight solution, and it's easy to implement. Here's a demo page. As Scott's post explains, it simply replaces all <hr /> elements with <div class="iehrfix"></div> in the affected versions of IE.