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Thursday, January 28th, 2010May this save you pain.
Category Archive for 'Web Design'
“Scary Web Error!”
Saturday, January 16th, 2010Apparently on a few AT&T phones, a few Facebook users were dropped into accounts of other users.
After typing Facebook.com into her Nokia smart phone, she was taken into the site without being asked for her user name or password. She was in an account that didn’t look like hers.
… AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said its [...]
Configuring Sendmail for UF’s SMTP
Friday, January 15th, 2010Our Ubuntu web host, hosted with OSG, was not able to send mail (using PHP mail) outside of UF. An OSG tech said our From: header should be a valid address at UF (check) and that the logs at smtp.ufl.edu showed those messages never made it there.
The solution was to configure sendmail to use smtp.ufl.edu [...]
Get higher quality images within printed web pages
Friday, November 6th, 2009Due to web images being optimized for on-screen display (let’s say 96 DPI), images on printed pages are usually blurry, but they don’t have to be:
Start with a high-resolution image. E.g. 2000 x 1000.
Save a version with dimensions that fit well in your printed layout when placed in an IMG element. E.g. 300 x 150.
In [...]
Call it “SecondOpinion”
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009The creators of StackOverflow should team up with the Dept. of Health & Human Services and launch a medical Q&A site based on the SO model.
StackOverflow was designed by a few programmers to scratch an itch within the community, and the model they came up with made it the most effective question/answer site I’ve ever [...]
We need a distributed social networking protocol…Could Opera Unite be a key?
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009(Written July 2007)
The digital dark ages is already a reality for a lot of people who grew up with hosted e-mail services like Compuserve and AOL. A lot of those users had no choice but to accept the loss of all their received and sent e-mail when they unsubscribed, the service went under, or their [...]
Smallest valid HTML documents
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009HTML4
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN”>
<title></title>
<p>
HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>
Smallest “useful” HTML5 document
<!DOCTYPE html>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”site.css”>
<script src=”site.js”></script>
<title>Page Title</title>
<h1>Heading</h1>
<p>Content…</p>
Check em if you want. To avoid problems in IE you might want an opening body tag, but you don’t need a closing one!
Chrome Frame
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009The idea of a plugin that replaces one browser’s rendering engine with another’s has been floating around for years.
Google is going to give this crazy idea a shot with Chrome Frame. The idea is that an IE6+ user gets bugged that a site requires the Chrome Frame plugin. After she installs it, web pages can [...]
Javascript files don’t auto-update
Friday, August 28th, 2009On a panel of 4 Javascript library developers at Ajax Experience 2008, a question came up about how their libraries use browser detection. When John Resig suggested that libraries should strive for full feature detection (hardly used at all at the time) instead of browser/object detection, the other developers reacted like he was crazy. They [...]
IE6 Lurches On
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Despite popular demand, IE6 just won’t die. While I feel for front end developers who struggle with this daily, it was once much worse.
RichInStyle.com maintained a comprehensive CSS bug guide (I can’t imagine the hours of work put into this) for the popular browsers around 2000 and the Navigator 4 list is two long, dense [...]
