Skull Jackpot

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Lessons from a white whale

December 18, 2008

I enjoy squashing renderbugs.

I don’t always enjoy the midway point, when a misrendering issue stubbornly refuses to yield to my ministrations, but that “Eureka” moment where I manage to tease out what’s going on under the hood and come up with a solution – that’s gold.

As a result of the fact that Internet Explorer generally has the most rendering issues, I’ve gotten to be good pals with IE, in it’s various incarnations. When presented with a new renderbug, I sometimes feel like a sitcom parent catching a child with their hand in the cookie jar. “Oh IE you goofball, what mischief have you gotten into this time…”