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Internet Explorer is full of odd behaviors but this one has got to take the cake. Recently a bug was reported in one of my websites for an IE8 user. Instead of seeing an opaque grey background on my navigation they were seeing a gradient that faded from the top to bottom corner into transparency. Making the text really really hard to read. Fortunately I harnessed the power of the internet and the Google search engine to find this post:...

Once upon a time there was a very old browser that continued to haunt web developers across the globe long after it should have become ancient history... I still design for IE6 deficiencies as of this writing. Internet Explorer is the only browser that I have to check three different versions when I am coding and cutting up a new site.  One of it's limitations that was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with was it's non-support of the transparency in a png file. gifs just no longer cut...