Common Internet Exploder Issues

I had the opportunity to have coffee this morning with an awesome guy, Darren Huckey, of MonstorGraphix and during our conversation this morning we got to talking about Internet Explorer, or as those of us in the industry call it, Internet Exploder… 

Internet Explorer has long been a thorn in the side of the web development community for a number of reasons, some of these reasons you can find highlighted in a note that Darren tagged me in this morning on facebook.  This was a pretty good list of complaints so I thought it was definitely worthy of reposting.

What can you the web surfer do to help eliminate these problems for us?  You can download and install Mozilla Firefox as your default web browser!!!  It will render the web a lot better for you, not to mention is about twice as fast!

This is not an original list. This is a list originally created by Aleksandar Vacić being re-posted from this url: http://aplus.rs/?s=xplorer+z-index+bug
However, it pulled on my heart strings so much that I had to re-post. FYI, check out the original post to view all of the documented links for each of these. In no particular order…

• PNG alpha transparency broken.
• Broken float model.
• Missing text, aka Peek-a-boo.
• Pseudo-element extra-space needed.
• Duplicate character with adjacent floats.
• Broken margins on floats.
• Phantom box.
• 3px text jog.
• Missing first-letter.
• Creeping text.
• Doubling margin on floats.
• Float boxes running-away.
• Ignoring font-sizes inside of tables.
• Missing images if saved in Mac’s Photoshop 7.
• Not caching images loaded from CSS, thus introducing flicker (really annoying over SSL).
• Randomly loose images loaded from CSS, without realizing that.
  Not supporting the best thing that ever happened to web design: CSS2 selectors.
• Not supporting DOM2 Events.
• Not supporting position:fixed.
• Not being able to resize the only true screen measurement unit: pixels.
• Not supporting max-width and min-width.
• Not supporting :hover on any element. Count here all other pseudo-classes.
• Not being able to prototype existing HTML elements
• z-index phone book. I know. I hate every one of you responsible for this behavior. MS or other.
• Not giving “document ready” state when .swf file is missing and loaded with object tag (thus all your window.onload scripts never execute).

This is not the full list. Just things that troubles me almost every day.

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