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Craig Grannell

"The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design"

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Elsewhere, things are simpler. For Firefox, different versions can happily live on the same
machine, although they can??™t be run simultaneously, unless you start each version with a
different profile??”see ???Geek to Live: Manage Multiple Firefox Profiles,??? by Gina Trapani
(www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox/geek-to-live--manage-multiple-firefox-??
profiles-231646.php), for how to do this on Windows; and ???Running Multiple
Firefox Versions Concurrently,??? by Jeroen Coumans (www.jeroencoumans.nl/journal/
multiple-firefox-versions), for how to do this on Mac OS X. Opera is even simpler: you
can install multiple versions and run them without having to do anything special.
Dealing with Internet Explorer bugs
As mentioned elsewhere, Microsoft made a huge leap forward with Internet Explorer 7,
but it??™s still not without its problems. Also, because Microsoft??™s browser enjoyed such an
immense market share for so long, older versions remain in use for years, sometimes
enjoying a share of the market that manages to eclipse every other browser apart from the
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latest release of Internet Explorer. With this in mind, along with the sad fact that
Microsoft??™s browser has been the least compliant one out there for a long time now, this
section is dedicated to exploring how to deal with the most common Internet Explorer
bugs. These are all worth committing to memory, because if you??™re working on CSS layouts,
these bugs will affect your designs at some point, and yet most of the fixes are
extremely simple.


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