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Opera browser is a great alternative to Internet Explorer and a must have for anyone concerned with W3C standards. It is IMHO the browser with the absolutely best support for all standards from W3C. It also has many cool features, amongst these is the coolest and most addictive one - Mouse Gestures
Other features are built in mail client, skinning and more.

Check it out - it's a great piece of software!
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Just posted a new article at my column. It shows you how you can make your own skinned custom controls. The technique used is based upon the technique used in the ASP.NET Forums code...

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Today I discovered something I actually haven't seen before - the cross-browser support in ASP.NET. More specifically with the Label and Calendar controls.
When I decided to check out my project in Opera to make sure it rendered fine there, I discovered that the properties like Font-Size, ForeColor and similar are rendered inside a style attribute as CSS, but in Opera the controls are rendered using properties to control the look. I really don't see the logic in Opera being marked as a down-level browser when it in fact is more up-level than IE6.
I have yet to find a way to override this behavior, so it seems the only way to work around this is to change the styles on label controls using the CssClass property and thus refering to a CSS element.
Hopefully this will be fixed in the next version of ASP.NET - a way to disable this browser-check stuff would be really neat!

Ok this is my first post to my new blog, provided by Scott Watermasysk's great blog service - it really rocks!

I've been trying to figure out what I should write about here and Scott suggested I should simply post things like problems I have encountered, possible solutions to these problems and for example links to some good articles that are really worth reading and so forth. I will try my best to post quality...