Posts in: Web development
- Debugging tip: “Disallowed Key Character” error in CodeIgniter
- After 6 hours of massive anxiety, stress, near tears, one pound on my desk, and some hair pulling, I tracked down the source of a nagging Disallowed Key Character error that I received while using CodeIgniter: an extra line break. The line feed (LF) and carriage return (CR) characters (and their hex code equivalents (%0D and [...] [6 May 2008]
- “Design Code” by the Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper)
- I am incredibly impressed with this dude’s ability to rhyme about web standards. Not that his rhyming skills are hot, mind you, but the subject matter isn’t exactly the stuff of legendary hip-hop. [27 Mar 2008]
- Microsoft changes course on IE 8
- They listened (mostly)! Microsoft announced today that Internet Explorer 8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. Internet Explorer will retain the version 7 rendering engine. But rather than opt-in to version 8 rendering, developers will have to opt-out of it. Developers and / or server administrators can [...] [3 Mar 2008]
- Sniffing users’ browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it
- Go read Niall Kennedy’s post about using JavaScript to sniff a user’s browser history. It’s an inventive use of your user’s browser history, though I suspect it could potentially be used — in combination with cookies and logins — to detect which of your users are also regular porn surfers. With that little bit of fearmongering out [...] [8 Feb 2008]
- On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it
- For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I remember [...] [25 Jan 2008]
- Internet Explorer 8 round-up
- My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it UPDATES: Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility. Best Standards Support Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests. Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for Internet Explorer. Microsoft᾿s “Super Standards” Mode: Important [...] [22 Jan 2008]
- IE8 will pass the ACID test
- Or as Molly put it: Yes Ladies and Gentleman, We Have a Smiley. From the IEBlog: … I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode. While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several [...] [19 Dec 2007]
- ‘Namespace’ your <body> tags
- Lately, I’ve been using specificity, inheritance and ‘The Cascade’ to my advantage by adding an id to the <body> tag of every page. This id acts as a namespace of sorts, allowing you to assign page or section-specific style sheets. It’s a technique I’ve employed on smaller, static sites. But it would work at least as [...] [18 Dec 2007]
