The Explorer insalubrity

I am aware Microsoft Internet Explorer can’t render chbm.net. That shouldn’t affect you unless you either don’t know the Web can actually look good or want it to look donkey behind.

In case you didn’t know the Web can actually look and generally not suck here’s my gift to you: the choice of Firefox, Google Chrome or Apple Safari. Firefox is the most extensible, Chrome is the most googley and Safari is not very Windows native but if you have iTunes installed odds are you already have it.

If you chose your Web to look like it does in Internet Explorer then chbm.net caters to you brilliantly. There’s no concessions or work arounds. The fact IE8 basically has the same box model errors IE6 had is laid bare here. Positioning, paddings and margins are consistently wrong in IE and 8 still not knowing how to render a table cell or position a float (that’s why the warning label at the top shows only in IE - in correct browsers it’s rendered offscreen) should fill the Microsoft IE team with shame. It’s also the reason why you need to scroll down to get to the content. The only visible advance is position fixed finally working in IE8. I don’t use position fixed on chbm.net.
I won’t even discuss why you don’t like nice details like transparencies or rounded corners. You’re probably from 1999 or something.