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Firefox 3's Buggy Text Rendering

Posted
24 June 2008
Tagged
Bugs, CSS, Firefox

With the recent release of Firefox 3 I’ve found that the way certain elements are rendered has changed, and in some situations not necessarily for the better. This is obviously due to the new version of the Cairo rendering engine, and no doubt, these changes are all supposed to be improvements (and mostly are). However, I’ve run into one problem with text rendering in some specific situations. Take a look at this:…

IE Floated Columns Totaling 100% Bug

Posted
20 January 2008
Updated
24 January 2008
Tagged
Bugs, CSS, Internet Explorer

I feel I’ve been blogging a lot about IE bugs so far, which I guess I have; but then, I wouldn’t have to if there weren’t so many! Anyway, this particular bug has no doubt been worked around in many of the column based layout templates available on the web, it may have even been worked around in this exact way, but I didn’t find it. And when specifically Googling for it nothing of any use came up, so hopefully this should help some people out…

IE7 Dotted Borders: Close, But Not Close Enough

Posted
16 January 2008
Tagged
Bugs, CSS, Internet Explorer

As if we needed any more IE bugs, I’ve just run into another. Although dotted borders were supposedly fixed in IE7, it turns out that they still render as dashed if applied to a fieldset with a legend (which is of course required). There’s no workaround as far as I know…

Three IE Form CSS Problems & Solutions

Posted
15 January 2008
Tagged
Bugs, CSS, Internet Explorer

I was recently writing some CSS for a form, and ran into a few IE problems/bugs which I’ve either not found documented elsewhere, or at least not found my solutions mentioned, so I figured it would be beneficial to post them here…