In today’s class we will be exploring a few topics:
- Browser testing, and troubleshooting techniques
- IE Conditional Comments and other ways to target specific browsers
- JavaScript basics and using jQuery
Online Resources:
- Quirksmode IE Conditional Comments - For writing IE-specific Stylesheets
- Adobe Browser Lab - For testing in many browsers simultaneously (requires Flash Player)
- Browsershots - For testing in many browsers simultaneously
- Firefox Web Developer Toolbar - Adds many useful testing tools to Firefox
- Firefox Firebug Plugin - Adds additional tools to Firefox, particularly JavaScript debugging information
- Charles Web Debugging Proxy - Another utility for capturing information between the browser and server
- jQuery - A very popular JavaScript library that eliminates much of the annoyance of working with JavaScript, and thus makes writing JS code much easier
- HTML 5 Boilerplate - Customizable starter code for an HTML 5 website
- Paul Irish Conditional Classes - Allows you to use a single stylesheet for all your IE browser fixes.