August 2009
10 posts
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Web Design Tip: universal background image
I was looking at yahoo’s travel portal: http://travel.yahoo.com
I saw the map they have there, and wondered if its some special view of their maps service!
turns out its not, it would have been cool if that’s the case …
out of curiosity i clicked on the image and selected “View Background Image” in Firefox, and to my surprise the image turns out to be more than a map image!
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Firefox ... too smart for its own good
I like Firefox … i really do …
I appreciate the fact that it accounts for many human errors and passes through them without miserably failing like “other browsers” do …
for example, if one misses a closing </div> in the HTML source, Firefox will presume that you were either drunk, high, or partially blind, and fixes that for you.
Firefox will warn you about...
IE Sucks: Reason #156473
I’ve always read debates on what mime-type to use with JavaScript. technically the use of “text/javascript” is considered obsolete and what everybody should be using is “application/javascript”
Today as i was writing some of my fancy JavaScript widgets, I used type=”application/javascript” and while everything was working perfectly in Firefox, when I loaded up IE7...
FeedBurner and your home made RSS parser
so this is what ticked me off today … I have a home cooked script that grabs content of FeedBurner …
I was looking at the CNN Politics feed and it seemed to show old content … after refresh it updated to the latest content, but another refresh reverted the content back to the older version …
what’s going on ?!
it turns out FeedBurner is trying to serve a...
“I’m unable to process the notion of defeat”
“One person can be the domino, that pushes over a thousand others.”
SHJS JavaScript Syntax Highlighting for Tumblr
alandipert:
I’ve gotten SHJS JavaScript syntax highlighting working in Tumblr.
To use it, you’ll have to customize your Tumblr theme. For HTML, CSS and Java highlighting, put this inside <head>:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://shjs.sourceforge.net/sh_main.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"...
