IEBlog : Site Compatibility and IE8
Friday, March 20th, 2009
IEBlog : Site Compatibility and IE8
Here’re a couple of methods for coding to IE8 (new hacks! d’oh!):
Initial CSS Property Values
| Unset properties on the currentStyle object now return their initial value. Relying on the old initial values for CSS properties such as z-index can cause problems. This is the root cause of issues with the ASP.NET menu control. | SOLUTION: Perform a check for both the backwards compatible value and the standardized initial value. |
| var zIndex = elm.currentStyle.zIndex; if(zIndex == 0) { // custom code } |
var zIndex = elm.currentStyle.zIndex; if(zIndex == 0 || zIndex == “auto”) { // custom code } |
Cars are the key to U.S. energy consumption. The dominant automotive platform here, whether you drive a truck, a car, or a motorcycle, relies on gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines. That’s the platform we are unlikely to change quickly. So how do we leave that platform intact and unchanged, ask nobody to significantly sacrifice, yet still achieve the noble (and Nobel) goals of lower fuel consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower pollution levels, dramatically lower oil consumption, lower cost, and lower geopolitical vulnerability for our country? There’s only one way I know to accomplish this: change the fuel.