Today I learned a little bit more about CSS styling and setting up themes and skins for ASP.NET pages. If you’ve done CSS styling you know that there are certain things that don’t work in some browsers. Another individual in the class asked if there was a website that identified all of these known bugs and hacks.

After posting the question/need on twitter, Jonic Linley came back and let me know about the Position Is Everything website that does exactly what we needed.
Normally I’d feature a website like this in one of my posts on Uncover the Internet, but given the …read more

My boss experienced an weird problem with his installation of Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
When he tried to view a web user control page in the design mode the application only displayed a blank white page. If he clicked on the “Source” view, all the code was there that was expected. Combing through the code didn’t produce anything that should have resulted in the error of things not loading.
It turns out the error was due to confusion on web user controls that also reference a CSS stylesheet. The rendering engine kind of gets choked on what’s going on. Jeff …read more