In this particular case I was using a CSS Sprite and on mouseover the Sprite-image should slide up to show the hover state to the next link in a jquery coda slider type display.

The Sprite’s CSS attribute :hover worked fine in FireFox, but when testing in IE there was no reaction to the CSS :hover state.

Turns out that you have to add a hyper link reference or IE will not recognize that there needs to be a switch.

I applied the href and now the silder arrow button-images are  is working great in IE7

Example:

This worked in FF but Not IE  :<a class=”prev”></a>
This was the fix <a href=”#” class=”prev”></a>

Don’t you just love messing around with cross-browser compatiblity.

This little nugget of info only took me about an hour and half to figure out….after I had adjusted much of my CSS code to figure out what was going on.
Nope the CSS was fine…geez.

If your not using Firefox I suggest that you switch over, for simply the sake of time.
If you spend a fair amount of time online, and I’m guessing you do because your reading how to save time by clicking less, the extra tools you can plugin to Firefox WILL save you time.

How much time?

Years, ago I didn’t think so much about the time it takes to click, but when your clicking all day long, the less clicks the better.

Our Example of click time:

Let’s just say we can decrees our clicks on the mouse by 5 less clicks a day using Firefox plugins.
We multiply that by 365 days in a year = 1,825 less clicks
And it takes us about half of a seconds per click (.5 x 912.5 seconds)
We divide that number by 60 (seconds in a minute)
and we find out that by saving only 5 clicks a day
you can reclaim 15 mins and 20 of your life back, Woot!

More plugins = more efficiency, once you know their power.

I was inpired to write this post after reading one of the many many many blog postings out there about FireFox and the power of it’s 3rd party developers.

Thank you open source and brain-e-acts, and thank you jeff chandler.