As you can see I’m not one for short posts, but sometimes a great article needs to be pimped. Smashing Magazine has lots of those and whilst I’m mostly a Web Developer and not a Web Designer (I do have an iPhone so there may be hope for me) it’s good to keep an eye on the current design trends for web applications. Smashing, super, great, well not so great with IE6. Their current article “CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8” is a change from the normal rant at Microsoft fare, but aims at understanding all the differences that occur in the Microsoft browser segment of the market...

When developing any web based application is pays to know exactly what your browser can do. If your developing an internal application you can make sure you maximise the website to what the browser can  support, this is Nirvana (provided the internal browser isn’t IE6, which in this case is usually is) just make sure your aware of any upgrades to the browser on the network and test early! If your working in the more common heterogeneous environment that is more common on public facing sites then understanding which browsers your going to have to support for your application is fundamental as this...