I’m still amazed at how often we’re passing up the chance to use HTML5 tags in our documents. It’s hard to break old habits, I know, but it’s time to dump the mountains of DIV tags and get with some semantic markup. There are several awesome tags to start using in HTML5, but I wanted to hit six good ones to start people off.
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For whatever reason, Apple made a pretty big (and in my opinion, stupid) decision regarding their latest OS. The vertical scrollbars are, by default, hidden.
Now, this does not affect FireFox, but it does, however, affect Safari and Chrome. Since we cannot reasonably ask our users to change the settings in their OS, we can do a bit of CSS trickery to make them appear. Note: This will affect the appearence of your scrollbars on all webkit browsers, regardless of OS. The CSS below mimics the look and feel of the Mac OS, but you can tweak it to certain your needs.