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 [...]
[6 May 2008]
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]
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]
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 [...]
[8 Feb 2008]
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 [...]
[25 Jan 2008]
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 [...]
[22 Jan 2008]
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 [...]
[19 Dec 2007]
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 [...]
[18 Dec 2007]
I’ve mentioned ies4Linux before, as well as a round-about way to get it running on your Mac OS X machine. Well, first Mike Kronenberg cut out a few steps and released ies4osx. Then Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior added those changes into the latest version of ies4linux. This isn’t yet a one-step operation. You will still [...]
[6 Dec 2007]
Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 is Here! Google Desktop for Mac Google Desktop for Mac seems like overkill since Spotlight is pretty robust (in my opinion). But the ability to deploy Google Gadgets in Dashboard? I’m thinking that’s genius. Previously: Widgets and Gadgets and Modules! Oh my! Elsewhere: The Year of the Widget? on Newsweek.com
[29 Nov 2007]