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This past week I went to Piscataway, NJ to visit IEEE headquarters and converse with my peers from all over the United States. The event: IEEE University Partnership Program Summit. The goal: Allowing us to express concerns and needs from IEEE, network with peers, and learn much more about IEEE than we knew in the past.

If you would like a short scoop on what happened (and see something I actually said), check out this article from IEEE. I’ve got a more in-depth article from IEEE internal pages, but I need to make sure that its okay to post it before I actually do.

Also, I’m going to post my review about the event when I have more time. Project deadlines, midterms, and administrative responsibilities have been killing me lately.

As far as I was aware, forms were simply supposed to be wrappers to allow the browser to determine which elements inside are supposed to be used with particular forms. Well, according to some browsers, now they have properties to modify the way a page look by default.

Both Opera 9 and Safari seem to have this really messed up view on the fact that forms are supposed to have a 1em bottom margin. I spent probably the better part of an hour trying to figure out why on earth I couldn’t get my login box for a client’s site to work properly on Opera, only to find this! I knew there was something wrong with the form, but I just couldn’t figure out what.

In any case, if you have mysterious paddings on the bottom of your form elements, this is why. Just use CSS to set “margin-bottom: 0px;”.