A question we asked ourselves last month as we wrapped up Parashoot. At first it seemed it definitely couldn’t be when the internet at your office fails and you have to establish a makeshift testing office in your front room. But what business hasn’t at some point eked out its existence, whether through infancy or old age, in the homely surrounds of an attic, spare room, garage or garden shed? Behold the rigour and beauty of our testing process, from iPhone to Dell netbook and Mac Book Pro.

On the plus side, having our server rack replaced by a fully functioning Ignis oven meant brownies were forthcoming, and thus IE6 was conquered. From here on in, IE6 will not be supported, in much the same way these admirable countries have stated their case against.

For quite a while now we’ve all been struggling with browsers returning (by default) fonts that ‘should’ be the same size across the board.

Obviously, when we design with a font-size of 12px, we need it to be 12px!

IE makes its margins and padding different from Firefox’s, Opera’s and Safari’s, meaning that certain graphical elements appear un-matched when we do our testing on various platforms.
Luckily Yahoo Developer Network has come up with an answer that must have taken them a while to figure.

“Yahoo Fonts CSS“ is a clever bit code that tells all the A-Grade browsers to display the fonts the same size and when coupled with “Yahoo Reset CSS” will reset all the XHTML elements to display the same.

That’s saved a bit of time!