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IE Hacks Galore

IE sucks as a browser and will one day be WC3 complient, but until them we will have to hack it. Fortunately Microsoft knew their browser sucks so they wrote in over-rides for designers to make changes.

(FireFox, Safari, Opera, & Chrome have not written their’s and they should!)

Image Preloading Through CSS3 Caching

Have you ever wanted another option to preload images besides JavaScript? Try using the new "content" property to preload them at the bottom of your style sheet.

Liquid Anchor Button

Have you ever wondered how to make an anchor / button that will expand and allow you to place as much text in it and the anchor will not break?

Crispin Porter HTML Test

A hard html test given to me by Crispin Porter that I finished in under four hours. Take a look and learn a lot about obsure liquid layouts.

If you can pass it, then you are excellent.

Firefox CSS Hack

Need an example of how you would hack FireFox because of the margin verse position problems they both have. Basically, Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 have different engines that render CSS differently.

Firefox Mac Hack

Have you noticed the that FireFox for PC and Mac OSX work differently? Have you also noticed the that Safari for PC and Mac OSX work differently too?

Internal Popup Example

Have you ever been stuck with the delima of how to make a cool "lightview" internal popup but you either have conflicts with MOO Tools, Prototype, or Scriptaculuous; or more importantly all those tools are 60k to 100k each?

iPhone Android Lightbox Lightview Internal Popup

Need an internal popup that works on iPhone or Android because Lightview, Lightbox or other interal popups don’t work?

iPhone Android Website Example

Did you ever just need a simple explination and coding example of how an iPhone or Android website works?

How To Make Java Script Detect For iPhone

Need an example of how you would detect the User Agent for the iPhone, therefore redirecting the browser.

Safari CSS Hack

Ever needed to know how you to hack Safari?

How To Make Apple Touch Icon Favicon For iPhone

Have you ever wondered how to make an iPhone desktop, "Add To Homescreen," button?

Palm Pre CSS

Need to know what advanced CSS the Palm Pre supports?

PHP Captcha Email Submission

Ever need a free coding example of how to make a PHP Captcha Email Submission?

How To Hide URL On iPhone

Did you ever wonder how to get your iPhone web app to retract the URL bar automatically?

Mac OSX Hack

Have you noticed the that FireFox for PC and Mac OSX work differently. Do you just need a simple Java Script and CSS over-ride for Mac OSX?

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