Michael Barrett The mark of the web.
This is a handy little item: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspx The “Mark of the web” is a specially formatted html comment which resides at the top of an HTML document, just below the DOCTYPE declaration. It might look like this: <!– saved from url=(0023)http://www.contoso.com/ –> The “Mark of Zorro the web” tells Internet Explorer 7 (and IE 6 [...]
Software Update(s)
So I made the switch-a-roo and dumped MS Office of my system (safely archived on the original install CDs). Above you see a sliver of the Terminal, Activity Monitor (‘cuz it’s neat), Coda, Numbers, Pages, and NeoOffice. NeoOffice is there to do “heavy lifting” in case I run across some Office-y type function I can [...]
Reverse Upgrading
I came across this interesting blog post about uninstalling MS Word and never ever using it again. http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/ It’s a nice read, though it’s basically a love letter to the new brand of hipster full screen anti-word processors like Writeroom and Scrivner. (These products seem nice for someone who a.) gets to use a Mac [...]
Eclipsed
I’ve been learning and working in .Net at the jobby job. And you know what? I like it. I run the MS “Express” tools in my Parallels desktop installation, and they are good, fine products for free. Working in C# has made me realize that I am perfectly capable of learning Java…so I grabbed the [...]
The case of the mysterious OS X Dock Freeze
I have been having this weird recurring glitch on my laptop. Periodically, with no recognizable pattern, the OS X Dock would become totally unresponsive. Dashboard wouldn’t come up, Exposé wouldn’t work, the application switcher woudln’t work, and I couldn’t click an icon to launch or bring an application forward. Also, it seemed like any operation [...]
So what?
This article has the best headline I’ve read regarding the new Macs with Intel processors http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/14/BUG70GN6MS1.DTL The article makes one good point, that the average consumer doesn’t give a rat’s patoot about the guts of their computer. I would argue that by and large most people might even be a little scared of what’s inside. [...]
Scrolling HTML Table with fixed header and optional footer
HTML tables are supposed to support a scrollable table body, but certain shoddy browsers only pay lip service to specifications. At work users want, nay demand their data table to be displayed in a useful fashion, and who can blame them? No one wants to scroll down 50 columns to find that value you’re looking [...]
JavaScript Debugger Console
I do a lot of JavaScript authoring at my day job. (I create user interfaces for web based applications, on top of other general web-site-related stuff)I am always tickled by this, as I took the job not knowing a lick o’ JavaScript, and now I feel quite confident with it. (I’m no PPK, but hey. [...]