Well, I’ve been using it for a couple of hours now and Virtual PC is already making testing so much easier. I’m confident that installing it will improve the quality of my work significantly.

Now that I can actually test properly on IE 5 instead of just happening by a copy every once in a while, I’ve used my first CSS hack. A hack hides a property from an older browser, IE 5 in my case. You set the property to the old browser version and then use a hack to hide a second setting of the property. Simple. Ugly, IMHO. But I found one that’s really very simple. The simplified box model hack preys on IE 5’s lack of compatibility with escape characters in selector names. Old versions of Opera fall fowl of it too, but I’m not supporting those because they’re below my usage threshold.

For some good reading on CSS hacks, see the hacks page on the CSS Discuss wiki.