Designer’s Toolbox has mockup ready PSDs of form elements ready to be used in mockups, etc. IE and Firefox on Windows, plus Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X. [ via jason ]

I’m pretty sure i bookmarked this at some point, but since IE6 is *STILL* king it’s still handy to hang onto. I cringe when i still IE6’s browser share. [ via 31three ]

John Resig notices that Safari, IE, and Firefox browsers round pixels differently.

Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a width of 25%, contained within a parent div of width 50px. Here’s the question: How wide are each of the divs?

The problem lies in the fact that each div should be, approximately, 12.5px wide and since technology isn’t at a level where we can start rendering at the sub-pixel level we tend to have to round off the number. The problem then becomes: Which way do you round the number? Up, down, or a mixture of the two?

Paolo Severini, a Microsoft employee in Dublin, has build a JavaScript Memory Leak Detector that detects leaks with knowledge of the difference between IE 6 and IE 7. [ via Ajaxian ]

Eric Meyer constructed a browser timeline built out of a table, and how he went about coding the html and css. Nice work.

I just stumbled on this, bookmarking for later review… but Dean Edwards has upgraded his IE7.js to version 2.0 (beta). Now available on googlecode. In a nutshell, IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Internet Explorer behave like a “standards-compliant browser”, fixing CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6. It appears to “fix up” IE6 close to how IE7 (an improvement) operates.

I don’t like the idea of relying on a javascript file (although an excellent idea) because if someone has turned off javascript, the magic dies. But I suppose this would be useful if you are in a pinch and you need a project to work in IE6 and you are pulling your hair out. Looking forward to using it (sparingly).

It’s coming from official sources that IE8 passes the Acid2 standards test. I’ve seen people blog about this today, and the reaction is mostly positive although for some it’s perhaps hard to believe? IE7 was not really much of a new version over IE6. IE6 is still being used more than IE7, so IE8 might be five years from now? But a good time in the right direction, Microsoft.

Great article on understanding CSS Colour modes, and shows the different ways you can do it in CSS2 and the variations in CSS3. CSS3 apparently is supported by more browsers than you think - but I didn’t see IE mentioned. I’ll probably just stick with what I know works, but is an excellent reference bookmark.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the development (or lack of) web standards, but not going to create multiple posts about it (yet). Best summary of everything so far is the “Future of Web Standards” article at b-list.org. Also “Reigniting the Browser Wars” and The W3C Cannot Save Us are excellent reads.

I need to start bookmarking more of these CSS tips. Here’s one for using Maximum and Minimum Height and Width in Internet Explorer.