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Reaching Greater Heights with jQuery: A Safari Height Bug Fix

Recently I was working on developing a site from a great design making use of a lot of CSS3 for one of our clients here at Brunello and hit a bit of a cross browser bug that had me stumped.

I was working with a centrally aligned main column that needed to have the illusion of fading from dark to light as you scroll down the page and also needed a shadow on either side of the column from the top to bottom.

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Tags: bugs, Chrome, css, height, jQuery, Safari

A Guide to CSS Support in Email Clients

Coding email newsletters can be a trip down memory lane: nested tables, font tags and plenty of inline styling. This is all fun and games until you run into varying levels of CSS support from different email clients. Luckily Campaign Monitor has an extensive chart detailing CSS support in almost every email client known to man. View the chart online or download a PDF for handy reference.

Tags: css, email clients, email newsletter, enews, Web Design

Semi-Transparency In Internet Explorer 6

As I’m sure any web designer has experienced, we’re sometimes forced to make compromises between what can be done in a mock-up and what can be smoothly implemented in code. One of the most glaring examples of this is dealing with the way a site is rendered in Internet Explorer 6 – a browser released in 2001, and mysteriously still embraced by nearly twenty-five percent of the browsing audience. This was, mind you, the same year as the very first black and white iPod was released – you see very few of those around. In fact, people were still using Windows ME in 2001. Not a lot of that going on lately either.

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Tags: Browsers, css, javascript