Text editor A good text editor is the heart of the hand-coding toolbox. You could use notepad or whatever plain text editor is bundled with your operating system, but there’s really no reason to settle. There are plenty of free alternatives with features to make hand-coding faster and easier. Windows – Notepad++ Hands-down the best editor for Windows. With syntax highlighting, auto tag completion, code folding, and much more, Notepad++ is a lightweight program with everything you need to code XHTML and CSS. Make sure you grab the TextFX plugin (built into newer versions) and the Explorer plugin (a nice file browser)... Read More
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In November last year, Microsoft revealed some of what will be new and improved in Internet Explorer 9 in the IEBlog post An Early Look At IE9 for Developers. Today, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch posted a follow-up: HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers. Yes, you can now download what Microsoft calls a Platform Preview to test drive Internet Explorer 9 for yourself. There are also a number of demos to show the improved performance and standards support in IE 9. Judging by several of the demos (HTML5 T-Shirt Designer and SVG-oids are two) it looks like IE9... Read More
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In my opinion, each xhtml coder needs software for testing web-pages for various Internet Explorer versions . If you use standard methods and install all IEs, then one cannot guarantee the quality of work of the web-pages. Here is the tester I have found for myself: IE Tester IETester is a free Web Browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8, IE7, IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. But this soft has small bugs. Known problems and limitations : The Previous/Next buttons are not working... Read More
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Everybody knows about PNG-24 problem in the Internet Explorer 6. I have found the best solution on this site http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/. This method uses Javascript to fix problem. I think it will help you. But for some reasons, sometimes this script does not work correctly on my server :( . I really don’t understand why. Read More
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