Category Archives: Internet
Internet Explorer 7 Beta Review: Part 1
August 6, 2005 – 3:18 pm
I’m interested in what features Internet Explorer 7 Beta has to offer, not because I’ll ever use it (Firefox’s extensions make it untouchable) but because the vast majority of computer users will. Those users will be seeing any websites I design, and I want to know how IE7 will make them look. So while IE7 […]
Bundled Firefox
August 3, 2005 – 2:52 pm
Here’s a pleasant thought for web developers: one effect of Mozilla’s recent privatization may be deals with computer-makers to bundle Firefox with their systems. Teney Takahashi, an analyst for the Radicati Group, a technology consulting firm in Palo Alto, agreed that creating a private Mozilla company may help with forging partnerships. Cutting deals with personal-computer […]
WordPress on Previews: No Comments
July 22, 2005 – 6:04 am
Why doesn’t WordPress ship with a real comments preview? By “real” I mean doesn’t rely on JavaScript (so that excludes Comment Live Preview, as nice as that is)previews the comments as they will actually look (i.e. with filters applied, etc.) All discussion boards (and other weblog software) include this feature. Why isn’t there at least […]
Plugging Plugin Problems
July 21, 2005 – 7:23 pm
I just installed the nicely designed Get Recent Comments plugin, but because I’m using WordPress 1.5.1.3 at the moment, I got the following error when trying to set the plugin’s options in the dashboard under Options > Recent Comments: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare kjgrc_subpage_gravatar() in …/wp-content/plugins/get-recent-comments.php on line 23 Apparently I’m not the only […]
JavaScript Email Hiding
June 28, 2005 – 1:08 pm
If you plainly show an email address on a website, it’s likely to be harvested by a spam spider. To get around that problem, I’ve been using the following JavaScript in the middle of a page: <script type="text/javascript"> <!– This script hides the email address from spiders –> […]
A hack to ax those annoying windows
April 18, 2005 – 3:13 pm
This tip isn’t as easy to set up as a Firefox extension, but it’s still pretty easy. The problem Many websites have links that force open a new window. Those new windows drive me crazy. At first I don’t notice a new window’s opened. Then I try to use the browser’s back button, and (“What? […]