Doing a new project that involves technology that various versions of IE can’t handle and I stumbled upon this great function on StackOverflow for detecting IE that works right up to IE11. Continue reading “Code: Detect IE”
If Your JQueryUI Is Broken in IE 7
I implemented JQueryUi’s accordion on a few sections of a recent project, styling up the headers and content from scratch so as to fit in with my site design. When it came to test the sections in IE7 however, the accordion simply displayed on the page as standard HTML h3’s and divs, as if the JQueryUI file had simply not been included in the page. Continue reading “If Your JQueryUI Is Broken in IE 7”
Fonts failing to render when using @font-face in IE
Venturing into @font-face territory for the first time seemed relatively painless and pleasing to the eye, that was of course until I reached the root of all evil, Internet Explorer.
My sparkly new fonts were displaying perfectly is every browser, but failing to render in IE.
After Googling I discovered font squirrel, an amazing online resource which generates the .eot file required by IE from your original font file for you. Even better it provides a zip file containing a working sample (HTML/CSS files), and the font in all the other formats used by various other browsers.