If you do any sort of Web Development at all and you don’t know about either of these sites, you’re severely missing out on one of the Internets most useful resources ever created for Web Development. Sure, there are other sites, even Microsoft’s MSDN Library which has pretty good documentation on a lot of the same stuff, but none are as easy to navigate and have as many tips and information about cross-browser application.
I’m talking of course about Brian Wilson’s Index DOT Html and Index DOT Css sites. I have been using these sites over the past 8+ or so years as one of my primary resources when it comes to Web Development. They document the majority of the HTML and CSS elements and properties, how they work and what browsers support them (and to what degree) – complete with browser specific tips and notes.
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In the middle of developing a web application and doing some routine testing just to make sure my AJAX code was working, I stumbled upon a rather odd and what seemed to be rather random error in Firefox 3. It took some debugging and a bit of speculation to figure out what the problem most likely was and how I hoped I fixed it.
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If you’re any sort of respectable web designer, you’ve obviously come across many situations when you’ve had to use divs as a sort of inline block and only wished that you could use display: inline-block to quite simply solve all your layout problems. Instead though, we’ve had to resort to using float: left and then inserting a float clearing div/br after all those floated divs. Sure, it works but it’s not what we really want to end up doing (especially having to throw in extra html markup just for visual correctness).
Well, I’ve since run in to a situation that using float: left wasn’t working for me (try centering a set of divs that have float: left – it’s a pain!), so I had to find some kind of way to use inline-block. Thankfully, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 support inline-block now, but we still have to deal with those hard-headed users that take forever (or never) to upgrade their browsers. To accomodate Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 we have to use some CSS hacks (what else is new!); thankfully they’re not that bad (but it still invalidates your CSS… bummer).
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I’ve been using RoboForm2Go for a while now – started using it back when it was still called Pass2Go. I like it, it’s a decent program and works fairly well. I like how it’s data is organized and it’s a few steps ahead stuff like KeePass (though KeePass does seem to be catching up).
I did notice a problem with RoboForm’s Firefox XPI toolbar plugin however, in that when you had a “minimalistic” window open (such as view source, or a JavaScript popup that had no toolbars specified), it would still attach the RoboForm toolbar to it at the bottom, usually hiding any horizontal scroll bar the window had. Now it’s not such a big deal to just click the little close box on the toolbar so I could use the scrollbar, but it is still very annoying since I tend to use the “view source” feature quite a bit. I also know that this is very much a bug in their program or adapter because I have other toolbars in Firefox which do not exhibit this same behaviour.
So I figured I’d be nice and bug-report the problem for them to ensure they were aware of it. I was somewhat surprised however with how their support staff (William, or so he decided to call himself since his Indian name is probably not “customer friendly” or something) has decided to handle it.
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