• Problems tabbing through checkboxes and radios in MacOSX Safari

    Posted by Jeff at 1:45pm on October 21, 2008 under the following categories: Accessibility, Browsers.

    Many people find it easier to use the tab key to cycle through the various fields of a form in a web page. If you are using a browser in MacOSX, you will find that you cannot use the tab key to access checkboxes or radio buttons... instead you have to use the mouse/trackpad. Read on for a solution.

  • Make your alpha transparent PNGs 32-bit

    Posted by Jeff at 11:58am on June 13, 2007 under the following categories: Graphical.

    You should always ensure any alpha transparent PNGs are 32-bit to ensure that they always display the same colour across all browsers.

  • How do I display alpha transparent PNGs across all browsers?

    Posted by Jeff at 10:40am on May 5, 2007 under the following categories: Browsers.

    Find out how you can use alpha transparency successfully across all browsers - and specifically IE 6 for Windows.

  • How to get consistent font sizes across all browsers

    Posted by Jeff at 1:58pm on April 18, 2007 under the following categories: CSS.

    Whether you specify your element's font size in pixels, points or ems, you can be confident that text will look the same across browsers on Mac and Windows with this simple set of CSS rules.

  • How to target specific IE browsers using just HTML?

    Posted by Jeff at 11:08am on April 18, 2007 under the following categories: Browsers, HTML/XHTML.

    Conditional comments are totally valid markup (for HTML as well as XHTML doctypes) that cause IE browsers running in Windows to parse the contents of the commented markup.

  • Microsoft finally retires IE 5 for the Mac

    Posted by Jeff at 12:03pm on December 15, 2005 under the following categories: Browsers.

    On December 14th 2005, Microsoft quietly published an update onto their web site. They announced they are finally ending all support for Macintosh Internet Explorer as of 31st December 2005 and will not be providing any further security or perfomance updates.