Boggle The Mind

Thanks to the crazy New England weather

I had some server issues and had to take the site down the past day. However, the worst of the storm seems to have passed and we are back in business for a few more hours. Enjoy the rain.

That’s right, it’s here again….CSS Naked Day! It’s the second annual naked day this year, and according to Dustin’s list, there are about 1500 sites losing their CSS for the day.

So have a drink, get some courage, take it off, and come on in! The water’s great!

So last week I had the privilege of attending An Event Apart Boston. Aside from the traffic driving into Boston both mornings, the event was definitely a success. While I had seen a few of the speakers at SxSWi ‘06, I got to see quite a few new speakers as well.

While I was familiar with much of the content presented, there were a few new tidbits that came out over the course of the two days, and some nice refresher stuff as well.

I did get a chance to talk to Eric Meyer after his presentation about the future of CSS with IE7. He had shown a new hack to target CSS for IE7 only:


*+html body {}


This is similar to the hack which targeted IE6:


* html body {}


While the IE6 hack made it seem like there was another element wrapped around the tag, the hack for IE7 makes it seem that there is an element before the tag. This made a bit more sense to me, as there would generally be a DOCTYPE first thing in the code. I asked Eric his thoughts on this, and while he said that it certainly shouldn’t be the DOCTYPE that triggers the hack (because it’s SGML, not an HTML element), he really wasn’t sure.

I did finally get a chance to test my theory, and sure enough, if you remove the DOCTYPE the new *+html hack no longer works in IE7. Gotta love MS bugs!

Anyway, I would certainly recommend checking out An Event Apart if it comes to your city, or even if it just comes to a city you’d like an excuse to go see.