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While mocking up a design page for a colleague's website I came across a new browser behaviour in IE8. This was the first time I used IE8 as my main development browser, due to the fact that the PC was re-installed and high-priority updates were applied. Surprisingly Microsoft branded IE8 as a priority update. Anyway, back to what I was talking about, here's a sample: <a href="index.htm"><img src="logo2.jpg" alt="Logo" title="Logo" /></a> As you can tell, this is using an image for a link, where it behaves well in Chrome, Firefox and in the previous versions of IE (7 and older). But in IE8, this is not the case as the DOM does not treat the image as innerText, only as a child node. As a result, everytime I hover the mouse over this image, an extra gap would come from nowhere shifting any relatively positioned elements. To fix this I explicitly added a space (&nbsp;), so the line would look like: <a href="inde...

Have you ever noticed those nice pictures with the smooth round corners?  Have you ever contemplated how it's done? Now without the power of Photoshop this is possible with   RoundPic.com . All you have to do is upload your image and specify the corners and the size of the rounding (with other options).  The image is then preview on the web page waiting for you to download it.  And that's it.  In just a few seconds you have a rounded image. 

The open source image editor GIMP has reached a milestone release of version 2.6, with the Windows installer now available. This major release includes improvements on the user interface, tools and plugins. There are also some under the hood changes. Some of the new features are: The toolbox menubar has been removed and merged with the image window menubar. It is now possible to pan beyond the image border, making image window navigation much less constrained Improved free select tool Brush dynamics and more ... The Windows installer is available from here