a nice article by Jonathan Snook on Cross browser text rotation. Please go and read it the full article with examples and stuff.

All the needed code is here:

HTML

<div class="example-date">
  <span class="day">31</span> 
  <span class="month">July</span> 
  <span class="year">2009</span>
</div>

CSS

-webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(-90deg);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=3);

Inspired by a short conversation on twitter with Jeroen.

@jvwissen nah, it's bulshit to make a site look the same in every browser. users don't even know what they are, let alone that there diffs.

@wnas let's make sites that look completely different in every browser. :D

As I typed that tweet, I decided to do the exact opposite of the thing I do in normal life. Building a nice demo page to show how you can get a page to be different in every browser.

• Firefox 3
  -moz-column-count: 2;See the two columns?
• Opera
  background-image: url('img/operabg.svg');SVG background image
• Safari 4
  -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 15px;Look at the other rounded corners.
• IE 7
  No columnsAlso a bit different...
• IE 6
  2 colums thanks to extra div's with conditional comments.Also a bit different...

It uses conditional comments and browser specific css 3 implementation... If you have any suggestions on how to make the page even more different, please let me know on twitter or in the comments.

And in the unlikely event that your a company that wants their site different in every browser, please contact me, I would love to help you...

ps. the content is the communist manifesto, the new lorum ipsum...

After years of domination, finally IE's share is starting to slide down to a respectable level. Web developers rejoice! Go and read for your self here:

Internet Explorer's progressive slide continues: Microsoft's browser is down to 66.10 percent from 73.01 percent a year ago. Half of that loss has been taken up by Firefox (up from 19.03 to 22.48 percent), with Safari also benefiting (up from 6.31 to 8.21 percent).

See the source

And as for mobile, it seems even better for us:

If the breakdown is restricted to mobile platforms, the shares are (to the nearest whole number) iPhone/iPod touch 65 percent, Android 9 percent, Java ME 8 percent, Symbian 7 percent, Windows Mobile 6 percent, BlackBerry 3 percent, others 2 percent.

See the source

But as a word of warning, this may look good. But in my opinion we still have to cater some content to IE6 users, as each user is as important as the others. It just mean that we will have to jump through less hoops, as hopefully customers will be using a better browser than IE6.