In the past I’ve read hundreds of articles about the failings, “features” and related idiosyncrasies of Internet Explorer but until last week I hadn’t heard of this one. When we tested the site in Internet Explorer we found that every page would load correctly and then, right at the last second, change to the standard [...]
Category Archives: Web Design
Internet Explorer 6 Performance
I spent a huge part of today trying to determine the cause of a major Internet Explorer performance and rendering regression in a Web Application I'm developing. The reason it was such a bitch to find was because so much code had changed since the last time I had done a proper test in IE6. [...]
Productivity++
This afternoon, Tom got me to check out a SIMBL plug-in named megazoomer. After upgrading my version of SIMBL and dropping the megazoomer bundle into its place in my Library folder, each Cocoa program I started from then on had fullscreen capability. With the default key combination that seems borrowed from Windows (⌘ + ⏎ [...]
PHP4, Constructors, $this and Output Buffering
Just spent half an hour trying to figure out a very random bug in a PHP4 application I'm developing at the moment. I'm using an MVC design pattern and in the constructor for the View object I wanted the class to set itself up to capture all output using output buffering. I've used this style [...]
Backed by WordPress
I installed WordPress 2 last week and decided to have a play around with the capabilities and see whether it would be a feasible alternative to my custom CMS which is missing a few features (mainly any blogging capability). I decided to see if I could port my current site's visual style to a WordPress [...]