8 Ways to Sunday

Stuffed Guys — a scrappy little software company headquartered in Moscow — has their sights set squarely on two of the sacred cows of Web 2.0: Chicago-based web application company 37signals and Google, the 800-pound gorilla of search, traffic analysis, e-mail, and whatever else they feel like doing this week.

Who are these Russian madmen, and what exactly have they got up their sleeves? More importantly, can their products help your business or organization?   (more…)

Nanobox has posted a brief list of CSS hacks that can work to isolate Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 web browser.

The author, David Hammond, applies a bit of flame retardant to his post by taking great pains to explain how conditional comments are really the best way to manage your IE-only CSS. I’ve found, however, that using CSS hacks in combination with conditional comments is a great way to both keep your main CSS files hack-free and to reduce the headaches of dealing with IE-specific stylesheets.

For example, a couple of sites I’ve worked on / am working on use CSS files both for IE7 only and for IE6 and under. Using David’s *+html hack, however, would allow me to target certain rules in an IE-only stylesheet just at IE7. Very handy, indeed.