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have you met ted?

divinentd — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:59:09 +0000

link: blog for all things how I met your mother.

Embedding Flash

divinentd — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:45:48 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve had to work with a flash movie, so here are a couple things I’ve learned today (applying my new policy of always researching problems before diving into code).

Using some third party flash embed code and the damn flash movie is on top of all your popups and shit? That’s because the jackasses forgot a parameter: wmode="opaque". See Flash content displays on top of all DHTML layers on adobe.com.

Also, here’s an improved version of the Satay Method, which you may remember from A List Apart. How to properly embed flash.

Timeout for Ajax Mootools

divinentd — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:19:00 +0000

Mootools Ajax Timeout from blackmac.de

Mootools 1.11 doesn’t make the distinction between a failure due to timeout or 500 or whatever. This lets you.

Oh, and there’s a New Version.

JavaScript Session Variables (without cookies or query string)

divinentd — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:33:50 +0000

Link: Session variables without cookies.

Now there’s a dangerously clever new idea. Use the window.name property to store a JSON object (converted into a string), and it stays there as you navigate from page to page. “What’s this window.name property, I’ve never heard of it?” was my first reaction, but then I recognized it from here: window.open(url, name, features). It’s been read/write since JavaScript 1.1, so I’m assuming this works in IE6, but it hasn’t been tested yet.

Of course this is completely insecure, when your visitor navigates to another site, that site will have access to your data. So it can’t hold sensitive user account information, and it can’t hold preferences that you wish to retain from visit to visit, but I’m sure there’s some sort of interface state data that would be handy to pass between pages, but not critical enough to warrant a back-end solution.

Sad Kermit

divinentd — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:43:23 +0000

Sad Kermit sings Creep, by Radiohead.

Sad Kermit sings Hurt, by NIN.

It’s like a dream about pre-school nested within a dream about high school. Creep is worth listening to just to hear Kermit say, “fuck.”

Three Equal Height Liquid Columns In CSS

divinentd — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:37:28 +0000

Presenting this code to demonstrate a couple concepts: gutter images on 3 liquid columns, and a generic column system. It may not work copy-paste. Also, I’m not going to bother explaining anything, or even demonstrating how the classes “double column” work with “single column”. The class clearfix is common enough, find it somewhere on position is everything, and to see what the heck I’m doing with those universal selectors (*) read liquid gutter dilemma.

The HTML:


   
       
          Blah blah blah.

       
       
          Blah blah blah.

          
Blah blah blah.

       
       
          Blah blah blah.

The CSS:

.section { background: transparent url(../img/bg_gutter.gif) repeat-y 66% 0; }
.gutter { background: transparent url(../img/bg_gutter.gif) repeat-y 33% 0; }
.column { float: left; }
.column * { margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; }
.column * * { margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; }
.single { width: 33.2%; }
.double { width: 66.4%; }

Chair (One of a Pair)

divinentd — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:17:41 +0000

LOL Cats Binge

divinentd — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:07:53 +0000

see more crazy cat pics

Homer CSS

divinentd — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:51:32 +0000

Homer Simpson in CSS

Cursor sometimes fails to appear in input text fields

divinentd — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:54:01 +0000

link: Bug 167801

This bug won’t be fixed until Firefox 3. The fixed range from awful to horrible, involving both CSS and JavaScript. I am rather annoyed.

I think what’s throwing me off is that I’m used to IE bugs. I expect them. And so many of them are related to having layout, I know where to start.