The Wonderful World of Bugs

by Andy Budd of Clearleft.com

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Hacks
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How many people feel they use too many hacks?

and how many people feel that use too few?

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Hacks have been given a bad name

literally
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Wouldnt be here today if it wasnt for CSS hacks

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Sadly, hacks have become synonymous with CSS

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It doesnt have to be this way

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Bug Fixing
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Browsers are buggy

but not as buggy as wed like to think

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Bugs come from lots of places

Syntactic errors Specicity clashes Overly complicated code Browser bugs Incomplete understanding of the
CSS specication

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Andys rst law of bug xing

keep it simple (stupid)

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Andys second law of bug xing

always assume its your fault

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Andys third law of bug xing

prevention is better than cure

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Andys fourth law of bug xing

offence is the best form of defence

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Andys fth law of bug xing

isolate the problem

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Andys sixth law of bug xing

use hacks only as a last resort

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Using Hacks Sensibly

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Types of Hack
Hacks that rely on parsing bugs Hacks that rely on unsupported or
misinterpreted CSS

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Good hacks
Are valid Only target older browsers Are ugly?

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Responsible hacking
Use hacks sparingly Only add a small number of hacks to
your main CSS stylesheets

Better to lter hacks into separate Always comment your hacks

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Questions?
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Thanks you!
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