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April 2007 - Posts

Favorite Web Development And Design References

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 2:51 PM by PeteL
While at lunch today, we got on to the conversation of web design and web development resources. I have sitting on my desk at all times, well, unless I'm using them at home: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer Web Standards Solutions: Read More...
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IE7 VPC Image and IE6 VPC Image Refresh

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:56 PM by PeteL
Cross posted from the IE Blog Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we’ve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007 . The first is a refresh of the Windows XP SP2 + IE6 image . A few people were encountering Read More...
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One Way to Level the Layout Playing Field

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:02 PM by PeteL
One of my pet peeves about CSS and HTML standards is sometimes, they aren't overly explicit, and browser vendors pick arbitrary values for things like line height, or margin or padding and the like. Eric Meyer has talked about a reset.css stylesheet that Read More...
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IE Public Bug Database - Connect

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 9:10 PM by PeteL
I've been following the comments over on the IE blog about Molly's post, particularly the comments of Chris Beall, thacker and steve_web, and I figured I'd post a bit of a follow up to what they were saying and ask for feedback from the community. In Read More...
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Compacting XP VPC Images

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:54 AM by PeteL
Someone had posted a comment on my blog asking how I get my VPC images down to a reasonable size, so I figured I'd share it here. It's not the most fun process, but it does manage to get a VPC image down from about 5+ gigs, to about 1.5 or so. To start, Read More...
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IE6 VPC & IE7 VPC

Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 1:44 PM by PeteL
We've seen a few reports of people having problems with the recently released IE6 VPC image. At first I thought it was because people were running the image on non-Microsoft virtualization software, which causes the image to be invalidated. But, I got Read More...
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