Something I ran into just now was returning an anchor's attribute consistently across browsers. So I have an anchor with an address like '/users/delete/5/' which does what you'd think it does. But I ran into an inconsistent return response in (you guessed it) ie6. In all fairness, it might not be IE6's fault, but it speaks more to a problem with mootools. While it is a nearly perfect library/framework, this does bug me.
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The Problem
I ran into another problem the other day native to ie6 (well ie7 and ie8 too, to be fair) where by I was trying to dynamically change a text input field from type="text" to type="password". Safari, chrome and firefox had no issues. It was a simple as node.type = 'password', or since I was using mootools, node.set('type','password'). Resolved. But wait...
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I've been told by many people, veterans in their respective industries such as family friends, family members, etc., that when you're in a technical field, the best type of job security is to specialize. I imagine this would extend to a lot of different areas (entertainment, finance, management, etc.) but especially in the technical/programming arena, I find it's very true and productive.
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On Twitter, I follow a bunch of people in the development arena. JavaScript framework core developers, designers, mysql/php architects, etc. etc. I'd say about 50% of the people I follow are in that arena (the other 50% probably being aggregators or tech news sites/blogs).
A consistent theme I'm finding in the past few months has been css3/html5 posts. They talk about new effects, rules, possibilities, etc. etc. Now I try to be optimistic about web development; I try to practice valid w3c content, semantic markup, everywhere I can. But the age of css3/html5, at least for me, is still so far off. 25% (at the least) of internet users are still using ie6, another 40% are using ie7; that takes us to about 65% of internet users using subpar browsers (ie7 is a step up, but still very much sub-par) that don't support anything close to css3 and html5.
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