Recently at work I was presented with a football news item to add to our website — Alton College had beaten St Vincent College 3 - 1 to move level on points at the top of the Hampshire College’s under-19 League. As part of the news item there was a league table highlighting Alton’s current lofty position. Whilst marking up the table I thought it might be interesting/fun to experiment with adding a little bit of speech CSS and generated content to make the table easier to follow when read using Opera.
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Bold and Italic HTML text sometimes disappears from a textfield. Here’s a brief tutorial that tries to explain why this happens and more importantly how you can stop it.
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Problems that can be solved by using the Stage object seem to appear with some regularity on the Flash forums I visit, so I put together a little tutorial that demonstrates a common use for it.
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While working on a theme for Moodle I thought it would be helpful to have a tool that allowed me to easily view details of an element in the document. To be able to see it’s ancestors, with any classes and id’s. Basically all the information need to write a CSS selector for that element. So I wrote a user JavaScript to do just that.
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After writing a seriously over-complicated JavaScript class to handle innerHTML style
behaviour in XHTML documents served with the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. I just found out
what I was doing wrong that was preventing all the simpler things I tried working. It’s all about namespaces.
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After trying to customise a web application using CSS and JavaScript I’m starting to wish browsers had never allowed web developers to get away with writing tag soup. Certainly if the developers of the pages I was trying to modify had been faced with a YSoD each time they produced malformed markup my job would’ve been made a lot easier ;-)
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While experimenting using XMLHttpRequest I noticed a few slightly strange differences between the
different browsers I was testing. These differences related to the value of the “this” keyword in the
onreadystatechange event handler.
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I got round to adding a stylesheet that doesn’t fail completely in Internet Explorer. While I was at it I also fixed up the fancy (pointless) Find as you type functionality on my search box so that now should work in IE too. Ooh AJAX how very modern.
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Ok, I usually don’t have a problem with adverts on websites, but ever since Flashkit upgraded their forums to vbulletin 3 the advert that appears alongside the header is getting ridiculous. So I decided to “Take back the web” and wrote a script for Opera’s User JavaScript that tries to remove it.
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Hooray! Today I began my collection of original animation artwork with two fantastic pencil sketches from Futurama. I’m such a nerd…
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Recently I have had the pleasure of working with some really well put together software from a company renowned for being
at the forefront of the evolution of business process outsourcing in the UK
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In the process I found they had included a wonderful little regular expression for validating an email address.
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The innerHTML property may be non-standard, but it can be a lot more
convienient than fiddling around with the DOM
methods to insert a chunk of XHTML
into a page. Currently Mozilla doesn’t allow the use of innerHTML to insert markup
into documents served as application/xhtml+xml, so here is a class that attempts to provide similar
functionailty to innerHTML for these documents.
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Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer may have noticed that this site looks a little, uh, “minimal” in your browser — minimal in this case being a polite word for broken.
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On a number of the Flash forums I visit regularly I have noticed that questions seem to appear cyclically. One of the current hot topics is “Why is my movie is broken in Firefox?” In almost every case the problem is the same — that the movie appears far too small — and it relates to the use of percentage dimensions.
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This is a weird one. Usually when I find a browser bug, or at least something that looks a little like a bug, other people have already found it, documented it and come up with workarounds. This however seems to have gone pretty much unnoticed? Maybe it’s too insignificant for people to care…
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