Google's plan to kick Microsoft's arse in a different way
“Google yesterday dropped a bomb at Redmond.” “Bomb!!! are you kidding or it’s just another bad joke from you?” “Wait wait it’s not, instead it’s true that Google did drop a bomb but it’s not similar to normal bomb that you and me have seen in the movies, it’s a different one… yes it’s a different one and it’s called Chrome Frame. You might be wondering what’s this, no worry just have a little more patience you will get to know what it is.” Nuff’ said… let’s explain what it is all about, Chrome Frame is Google’s effort to kick Internet Explorer in it’s arse, yes in it’s arse, in fact in Microsoft’s arse, this is a simple plugin( yes simple from User’s point of view) for Internet Explorer(6, 7 and 8), which does a “cool thing“, it replaces IE’s decade old, shitty rendering engine a.k.a Trident with Google Chrome’s [Continue... ]
IE textarea background image problem
Internet Explorer has a problem in setting background image to textarea, the scrolling mechanism as implemented by the browser is buggy while all other browsers handle it properly, IE fails naturally . The problem is if you set a background image to textarea and when you scroll the textarea the background image also scrolls, this behavior is incorrect because as far as I can recall an element background should only scroll with regards to the viewport. The easiest way to reproduce this bug is to use a vertical “sprite” image as the textarea background and set background-repeat to “no-repeat“, background-attachment to “scroll“, also apply position values to display part of image and try to enter multiline text in the box you can see the bug in IE. The only fix is that to set the background-attachment value to “fixed” which eventually solves the problem. This problem may be present in [Continue... ]