Notes of Note

While researching a solution for IE's (6 and 7) inability to recognize the disabled attribute on an option tag, I ran across this proposed work around on Harry Baily's Blog. It is the best solution I could find - and I read through many. For my application I opted to simply let IE be IE (i.e. imperfect) as I felt this was a lot of overhead for my concerns. You may (and probably do) feel different. I just tend to draw the line trying to get IE to fall in line with "the rest of the world." :)

I also recently was asked to help debug a particularly strange bug in IE8. I will spare you the details as it was occurring in a proprietary CMS, but suffice it to say, this one's important. I also won't bore you with all the "whys and wherefores" regarding the new strangeness Microsoft has blessed us with in IE8. Simply put, force IE8 to behave as IE7 and spare yourself yet another host of stress with this meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />