So I have now discovered that GMail isn't cross-browser compliant. Bitches. I knew it was too good to be true. So now if I want to manage my contacts I have to right-click in FireFox and "View this page in that bastard of a browser, IE" (quote may not reflect actual text of context menu item).
Sonofa...Just when me and GMail were getting along.
You know, all you web designers out there...It is just as easy to write your DHTML right, conforming to the standards, so that it works in all standards-compliant (or close to) browsers, as it is to do it just for IE. ESPECIALLY YOU GOOGLE, who if I remember right, is in some sort of "search engine war" with Microsoft. For the love of...I figured you'd have done your damndest to make sure Mozilla and Opera users got everything they could out of GMail.
Oh, and here's another tip. The proper way to display the hand cursor is cursor:pointer. That works in IE and everything else. cursor:hand only works in IE. Ergo, if you do cursor:pointer, you don't have to do a browsercap check to see if it's IE and ALSO do cursor:hand, because cursor:pointer, the standard, is going to work in all of the browsers that support CSS. Just because Visual Studio tries to tell you that "pointer" isn't a valid value (yeah, wtf is that all about) doesn't make it true. That's what happens when you use the IE HTML rendering engine in a real development tool.
ONE MORE THING. I have invites to give out to this broke ass GMail place (kidding, it really is cool, I'm just pissed about this DHTML thing). Look
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