CSS
IETester
As a developer, Internet Explorer is the bane of my existence. I’m hoping that this IETester product will help with testing. It still in alpha, but it claims to be a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Sick of Browser Incompatibilities with IE6/IE7?
Check out the ie7-js javascript library. It helps with a bunch of css, layout, hover, PNG support, etc.
Project Site - http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
Demos - http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/test/index.html
[...]Firebug
I ran across Firebug a couple months back. I installed it and didn’t think much of it…this past weekend i ran into a situation where i needed to know certain CSS styles and some Javascript code that were buried in their respective files.
This extension lets you debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, without having to open the file in an editor or right click and view the page source.
Pretty nice for development.
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Modality in the world of JavaScript
I am currently working on project where i am looking to incorporate a series of pages in modal form. These pages will have to accomodate images, flash swfs, and also straight up html. I have been scouring the web for the various options available to aid in this task. I ran accross this link that talks in great depth about the various modal alternatives in the world of html and javascript.
Here are some of the options:
- iBox - http://www.ibegin.com/ibox/ibox-test.html - pretty cool, light weight
- Submodal - http://www.subimage.com/dhtml/subModal/ - old school
- Todd Huss’s submodal - http://gabrito.com/files/subModal/ - improved Submodal
- Prototype Window - http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/index.html - pretty kick ass, but really slow
- Lightbox 2.0 - http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ - The best for just images
- Thickbox - http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ - Nice, uses several JS includes.
All of these have their own strengths/weaknesses, but i am leaning towards using lightbox and ibox…
CSS Zen Garden
Pretty amazing what can be done with CSS…