WYMEditor HTML Textarea Loses Focus
I’ve been using the WYMEditor on a little content management system I’ve been building at work. I was having a problem where I couldn’t edit in the HTML editor. Every time I clicked, the HTML textarea...
View ArticleSaving Images For The Web
There are a lot of people creating graphics for the web. A significant portion of those people have no understanding of how to optimize images. I’ll attempt to explain it. Typically, I’d explain when...
View ArticleInternet Explorer Version Targeting Finally Makes Sense
I kept mum about Internet Explorer 8′s version targeting to see how things played out. It looks like Microsoft did the right thing for real web developers. Version targeting allows the web developer...
View ArticleThe State of Web Fonts
A long time ago, Microsoft started making use of @font-face (also called web fonts) in CSS. This would have been revolutionary if not for the fact that using fonts required the designer to encode them...
View ArticleYahoo! Updates Graded Browser Support
Yahoo! updated it’s Graded Browser Support yesterday. The changes involved dropping support for non-Safari browsers on Mac OS X 10.4 and non-Internet Explorer browsers on Windows 2000. Support for...
View ArticleBrowsers and Form Collection
I’ve been writing a new form hijacker. Since this one is a pretty big deal for me, I wanted to make sure it was properly implemented. I implemented against my interpretation of the HTML 4...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 8 Released
If you didn’t already hear (and I bet you already did), Internet Explorer 8 has been released. For several months, I’ve been using the release candidates with the Internet Explorer 7 Compatibility Mode...
View ArticleTriangles in CSS
I was reading Image-free CSS Tooltip Pointers and realized the trick of triangles in CSS. These odd little polygonal things have been around for awhile, but I just now figured out how the triangle...
View ArticleSite Specific Hacks
The other day, I finally got curious about the Site Specific Hacks option in the Develop menu of Safari. It turns out that browsers do their own hacks to certain known problem sites to make them work....
View ArticleGetting Around Onload in Flash
I’ve been doing some Flash work recently and ran into a conundrum. You can’t create an empty movie clip, load a movie in it, and do a movie.onload=function(){...}. There are lots of work arounds, but...
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