in response to this update about the ‘css improvements’ in IE8, and my previous post about your brilliant ‘version targeting’ concept, i have the following recommendation:
GIVE UP.
what a sordid history “your” browser has endured!it is time you sent it off on an ice floe.

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here’s an interesting javascript ‘gotcha’… this block of code:
var y = 37;
var x = parseInt(y,10);
var s = “37″;
alert(x === s);
gives you a “false” alert box, whereas this:
var y = 37;
var x = “” + parseInt(y,10);
var s = “37″;
alert(x === s);
yields “true.”
apparently, ‘x’ is not able to be compared to other strings until it is concatenated […]

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recently, i could not for the life of me determine why two strings that should have compared as being equal simply refused to do so… that is, until i set up an alert box to display the underlying comparison character-by-character.
you’ll get different output from this script depending on whether you are viewing it from […]

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depending on how precious your time is, you might want to skip to the follow-up.
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1. the <select> onchange handler is a kludge, at best
reference: msdn forums
it should be noted that this also an issue within firefox, so do not think that you are made clandestine by your choice of browser alone.
here’s a fun experiment […]

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