From the post: As it turns out, in past versions, Outlook used two rendering engines. IE’s for reading content, and Word for composing messages. What this meant was that if you were replying or forwarding HTML emails, previous versions of Outlook would first use IE’s rendering engine to view it, then would switch over to [...]
[17 Jan 2007]
So you’ve got an HTML page (or HTML e-mail) with vertically-stacked images. And you’ve noticed a little problem: Each image is followed by a line of blank white space. So you check your code. You remove all of the line breaks and spaces from around your img tag. Then you refresh your browser window. And [...]
[16 Jan 2007]
I stumbled across this year-old post: In search of … a perfect plugin technique. Lots of good stuff about the pros-and-cons of various means of embedding Flash content. I’m partial to two methods: Using JavaScript to write the object and embed tags, and providing a <noscript> alternative, such as a static image. Using the object [...]
[14 Nov 2006]
Damn it, sometimes multiple tabs are a bad thing. Like when you’ve got two tabs open with the same blog screen and you’re composing a blog entry and hit publish in the wrong tab … and don’t notice until 30 minutes later. So um, this is what the post was supposed to be. Google Code [...]
[26 Oct 2006]
Via the Web Standards Project: Three videos by Douglas Crockford giving some theory on the Document Object Model and how different browsers handle it. It’s a dry presentation. Like the Sahara. Like twice-burnt toast. Like wind in the desert. I think this was an in-house video for Yahoo! developers, and in that context, I can [...]
[25 Oct 2006]
A mostly-IE7 round up. Some new. Mostly old. All in one place. IE7 is expected to start shipping in the next two weeks. Now is the time to get your site up to snuff. Update: IE for XP is now available. Microsoft released it yesterday. Details on our CSS changes for IE7 A quick-and-dirty list [...]
[18 Oct 2006]
An all canvas element roundup. Dynamic graphics: The bitmap canvas from the Web Applications 1.0 (Working Draft) specification by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. Drawing Graphics with Canvas from the Mozilla Developer Center. Using the Canvas from Apple’s Developer Connection. All Aboard AJAX, HTML Canvas, and the Supertrain from XML.com What the heck [...]
[12 Oct 2006]
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this was a 20-minute-see-if-it-works type of deal for the sake of experimenting. It’s completely untested in any Windows browser, and only sort of tested in Firefox for Mac, Opera 9 for Mac and Safari. That’s a screen shot. It’s ugly on purpose . Tweak it, trick it out, bend [...]
[5 Oct 2006]