Some interesting findings from web-dev land…
A little off topic but hey it does say ‘& stuff’ in the Blog title!
I’m turning into a bit of an energy conservationalist, if there’s such a word!
I was dong a bit of reading about energy efficient power supply units for PC’s. I suddenly thought about the cheap 350w Jeantech unit I had in my [...]
OK we all know that IE6 & 7 render styles differently to good old FireFox. I must say I continually find myself cursing Internet Explorer for this exact reason!
So in some cases the only way to solve these issues is to load in an additional style sheet. After your main style sheet has loaded. One [...]
I recently moved over to the 64bit version of Fedora Core 8.
My plan was to compile both Apache and PHP from source, as they require a fair amount of customisations for my needs.
The Apache compile went without problems but using my regular configure directives for PHP (5.2.5) threw this error:
1configure: error: mysql configure failed. Please [...]
I wanted to apply a different set of css styles to a degraded non-javascript version of a page to maintain some accessibility aspects.
I wrestled for a while with the <noscript> tag but this fails to validate in the head section of a HTML/XHTML document. This wasn’t a good enough way to do things.
Eventually (with a [...]