Here’s an easy bit of javascript that helped me solve a big usability problem.
The issue: we designed an application that requires users to fill out a form, then displays their errors in a popup window. It’s a lengthy form that can present many errors, so showing the errors on the form itself wasn’t a good [...]
If you’ve already installed IE7, it ate IE6. That means you can’t use IE7 to test how websites perform in IE6 and what strange IE6 quirks might be lurking in the shadows.
This standalone version of IE6 works pretty well for basic testing of CSS and layout issues.
It took me two entire days to figure out that it’s not my fault! It’s IE-freakin-6. I’m so annoyed.
Here’s the issue: I used my favorite technique for creating CSS tooltips on a form. Next to each form field is a [ ? ] which, when moused over, gives the form-filler-outer some useful guidance.
“It works fine [...]