So, there’s this dispute over licensing. I won’t go over the points or the conversation or what the dispute is — see the link for info. However, I felt like making a couple statements about the debate.
First, let me say I’m in agreement with Chris Pearson’s ideology here. He feels he has the right to make decisions that suit his business, and I believe that all Americans have that right. So, I think Chris’s position is correct. However, by using Wordpress, Chris has…
So, at work today, I discovered another interesting facet of jQuery and IE.
This is in specific regards to jQuery 1.4.2 and IE7. I haven’t tested this in other versions of IE, but it’s probably as applicable. For jQuery, this will only be a problem in 1.4.2+, as earlier versions of jQuery don’t support this feature.
Let’s get to it.
I’m generating some HTML forms on-the-fly by passing some JSON objects to a function that returns a jQuery object, which I then append…
Yep, I’ve yet again redesigned. If you’re using Firefox or Chrome, the site will be beautiful, and if you’re using Safari, it’ll be almost as beautiful (Safari 4 still doesn’t support inset box shadows in CSS3 *sigh*).
So a few details about the design.
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Yea, long title, bite me.
So I signed up for orkut today, without knowing what it was. You might say “What? I thought you were all web 2.0-savvy” and such, but the truth is, a lot of stuff flies by the radar. The web moves too fast for me to consume all of the new stuff on a daily basis and keep my job.
Anyway, I read a Google blog entry from several days ago where they mentioned orkut. I have a tendency to…
This is a note to myself and anyone else encountering the following JavaScript error in IE6.
Could not get display property. Invalid argument.
This error applies specifically to jQuery when using the animate method. The animate method works only in steps, so you can’t toss in CSS commands sloppily (although other browsers will treat this okay). Instead, you have to specify the CSS separately.
In other words, your original function may look like this:
$("#myObject").animate({
display : 'block',
top: '+=10px'
});
…
Today, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.9.2, and in the process I decided to play with some CSS3. If you’re browsing with Firefox, you may notice a completely new look here. Expect it to change frequently. I’m not serving the CSS3 goodness to other browsers that support it (notably WebKit-based browsers and Opera) because of the sheer magnitude of non-standard CSS3 properties (I can’t just duplicate and copy vendor prefixes — the actual order of the properties changes).
So, if you are using Firefox, you’re…
Uh-oh, don’t look now, but a new A List Apart article on contrast on the Web, entitled “Contrast Is King” makes note of the GrayBit tool and its use. Developed by Mike Cherim and I several years ago, this tool has been up for awhile, but it seems like it’s finally catching on as a useful tool to add to the Web developer’s arsenal. I’m excited to have been part of something that contributed to the future of the Web, in…
Several weeks ago, my employer sent my coworkers, boss, her boss, and myself to a one-day seminar downtown to learn about development (a term that has a specific meaning in the context of my employer’s line of business; if you don’t know what it means, don’t worry about it). During the course of this educational session, we were provided a series of 20 questions that we answered about ourselves, and 20 additional questions about how we believed others perceived us. It was a personality quiz,…
Recently, I was dealing with an XSLT stylesheet at work where our CMS (Cascade Server) runs mostly off of XML and XSLT for its theme/content development functionality. My project was to create an RSS feed for a list of files (for a gallery template). Most of it was pretty simple, but I got hung up on a somewhat unique problem. Allow me to describe it in detail.
The CMS utilizes a built-in “index block” function that outputs XML data based on several options. This…