if you want something done right… DIY.
i’ve got a drive geometry for dual-boot xp and debian that (i thought) prevented me from being able to shrink a too-generous linux root partition in favor of giving more space to my shared fat32 ‘data’ partition… like so:
/dev/hda2 ; ext2 ; 16mb –> /boot
/dev/hda1 ; ntfs ; 12gb –> [xp]
/dev/hda3 ; swap ; 2gb […]
jon udell puts it far better than i might, so i’ll let him do the talking:
“tag vocabularies could evolve in the same way that natural languages do. in the realm of natural language, we coin new words all the time. when we hear a new word that we like, we adopt it — or, perhaps, […]
string comparison: beware of \xa0
18 Aug
Posted by krisgale as compatibility hacks, annoyances, browsers
recently, i could not for the life of me determine why two strings that should have compared as being equal simply refused to do so… that is, until i set up an alert box to display the underlying comparison character-by-character.
you’ll get different output from this script depending on whether you are viewing it from […]
<select> onchange/onpropertychange using php
15 Aug
Posted by krisgale as compatibility hacks, browsers
<?php $ie5 = eregi(”MSIE [567]{1}”,$_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’]) != 0; ?>
<select name=”sel” on<?php print($ie5 ? ‘property’ : ”); ?>change=”func();” onkeyup=”func();”>
three things a web developer might do to force-feed their applications to internet explorer 7
12 Aug
Posted by krisgale as compatibility hacks, browsers
i won’t repeat why we must do these things. that was the purpose of the post just prior to this one. i would recommend reading it if you haven’t already.
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1. selectively use onpropertychange in <select>’s, and add onkeyup
go to: http://krisgale.com/select-fixed.html
this is the source code from the above…
<html>
<head>
<title>select</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function selectchange()
{ var frm […]
three things every web developer should know about internet explorer 7
10 Aug
Posted by krisgale as annoyances, browsers
depending on how precious your time is, you might want to skip to the follow-up.
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1. the <select> onchange handler is a kludge, at best
reference: msdn forums
it should be noted that this also an issue within firefox, so do not think that you are made clandestine by your choice of browser alone.
here’s a fun experiment […]