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by RoryH 310 days ago
This article triggered flashbacks to 20 years ago and using all sorts of crazy CSS to hack the browser to do what you needed it to. Nowadays CSS is (usually) a remarkable land of sanity in comparison.
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It was also a fun time to interview. Can you write a CSS snippet that will make a box red in IE5, Blue in IE6+, and is Yellow in Firefox but black in Netscape? CSS these days is no longer an adventure — they just tend to work.
I always grab the CSS reset Also the purple story