Javascript Kata has a teriffic an article on how to create objects with JavaScript the old fashion way, without any JavaScript libraries. But I use prototype and it has its very own way to create a classes.
Internet Explorer frustrates the living hell out of me. Event though IE 7 is finally out, it doesn’t mean that IE 6 can be ignored. I really look forward to the day when my CSS files aren’t full of unnecessary classes and hacks because the major browser vendors got it right and because everyone has casted away the garbage. Until then, I am still in search of tricks to simplifying my life.
One of these tricks is to make IE pretend like it knows how to use the :hover pseudo-class on all tags.
If you have ever tried to do a suckerfish dropdown, then you have gone through the same thing: excitement as you have learned how to use structural markup to create a dropdown and then frustration as your work has been nullified by IE. The fix involves creating duplicate selectors of those using :hover, but instead of using :hover, replace it with a class name .hover. Making what are essentially duplicates and managing more content doesn’t sit well with me. The other trick to getting suckerfish to work in IE is to use JavaScript. The script will add a class definition to the tag when a user’s mouse if over the element and then removes the class when the users mouse is no longer over it. Since this method uses JavaScript to solve one problem, why not make it solve both?