Archive for March 23rd, 2008

64bit PHP 5.2.5 compile error (Fedora Core 8)

23, Mar 2008

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 [...]

HEAD NOSCRIPT CSS validation workaround

23, Mar 2008

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 [...]


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