Archive for 07/2009

Yeasayer @ Pitchfork 2009

21/07/2009

I attended Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival this year for the first time. I was only able to attend one of three days, Saturday, which had an attractive lineup including most notably (in order of appearance) Yeasayer, MF Doom, Beirut, and The National. After securing a good position in front of stage C after The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s set, Yeasayer started setting up (what I knew of them came from listening to their first and only album, All [...]

Notes on Conditional Comments

05/07/2009

Conditional comments are conditional statements inserted into HTML that are interpreted by Internet Explorer (IE); they are most often used to differentiate CSS rules for the various IE versions (IE5 and later). The advantage to using conditional comments is that, as their name implies, they are wrapped in the HTML comment tag (<!– –>) and so keep your code clean and valid. Conditional comments can be used to address all IE browsers as a group, or target only a specific [...]