Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Changing The WAMP Icons

How to give WAMP different, alternative, better tray icons.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Showing in-page and inline content in Lightbox2

Lightbox2 allows you to load in same-domain content without an iframe using rel=”lightmodal”. What it doesn’t allow you do is use that same mechanism for content already in the page.

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

HTML and CSS Development Guidelines

Some rules for HTML and CSS development based on success in the field.

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Fixing Disqus’ thread.js error in IE

Turns out that the default universal code for Disqus won’t work in IE (8 or below at time of writing). The cause is a line (#1189 to be exact) in their thread.js that calls the indexOf method on an array.
As we all know, IE doesn’t support the indexOf method for the Array prototype. The simple [...]

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Avoiding flickering in jQuery when animating elements which contain Flash

jQuery slideToggle or slideDown will cause a Flash movie to flicker if the movie is inside the animated element. A short note on how to fix it.