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My sister and her husband (Simon), are going down to Malacca this weekend and I was giving them some advice on places to eat and go while they were there. During our conversation, I opened up several websites documenting the places I was recommending. One of such places was The Geographer located at Jonker Street (Read the full post). As the site was loading, Simon made a comment about tables being a bad (deprecated) method for arranging graphics and that <div> tags was the way to go. Then the conversation shifted to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the difficulty of getting it to work with all browsers.

If you don’t know by now, CSS processing for Internet Explorer (IE) is broken. Its a nightmare trying to get the browser to display a page correctly using CSS. And the fact that it displays things differently compared to other browsers does not help matters. You’ll need to plan your CSS carefully if you want it to work in any reasonable way across multiple browsers. Microsoft has promised that the release of IE7 would fix the buggy CSS horror that is IE6. However, until that becomes reality, webmasters and developers are left with the dreary task of hacking their style sheets to work around the flaws.

Having dabbled in this dark art before, I understand and feel some of the pain. So when Simon mentioned a site (PositionIsEverything.net) that was dedicated to exposing CSS bugs in all major browsers and providing hacks to work around those bugs, it didn’t take too long for me to browse my way over. I read some of the articles that have been published there and found them to be very informative. So if you’re serious about your CSS and web-design, then this might be well worth a spot on your favourites list.