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IE8 and animating height, published on Thursday, 19 August 2010 4:06PMHere’s another to file in the list of things that might one day show up on Google and help someone. IE8 seems to have a bug in animating height. If an ancestor of the element you’re animating has display:inline-block, IE8 will choke on the animation and not properly grow the element’s height (if it’s set to [...]
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IIS and long URLs, published on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 5:02PMFigured I’d post this here for posterity’s sake in case anyone else sees this error message pop up when developing. If you send a huge URL to IIS (over ~2,000 characters), like a GET with a ton of parameters, IIS will fail with a 500 error and the following message: “the data area passed to a [...]
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jQuery Bookmarklet, published on Friday, 26 February 2010 4:45PMInject the latest version of jQuery into your page. All in handy bookmarklet form! Drag the link below to your toolbar and you’re set: jQueryify
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Facebook login broken in Safari 4 beta?, published on Saturday, 30 May 2009 2:22PMHere’s a fun, major example of a cross-browser bug in the wild. It seems that, for certain users of the Safari 4 beta (latest update after the Mac OSX release), logging into Facebook is totally hosed. If I try to log in, Safari gives me a cursor with a lovely blue ball. It doesn’t even [...]
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YUI IE8 Selector utility bug, published on Friday, 22 May 2009 8:50PMVersions of the YUI Selector utility prior to 2.7.0 won’t work with IE 8. There’s a bug in there somewhere that breaks className selectors. So, something like div.bd won’t return any results. The solution is to upgrade to 2.7.0. I’m working on a site on which I can’t upgrade the whole package; it would take too much [...]
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It’s a launch!, published on Thursday, 14 May 2009 9:28PMHave a look at that lovely Learn and Explore section on NikonUSA. Copious uses of the YUI library and a whole bunch of lightbox / media player functionality that I hacked together. My favorite part: the in-page glossary (nice little RegExp there) and the little lava menu I worked up on any of the Glossary pages.
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Note to self…, published on Thursday, 14 May 2009 9:23PMIf you’re running an animation for 250 ms and you need a function to execute after that, make sure you either run it as a call back or set a timer that’s longer than 250 ms…
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Copying an HTMLElement’s styles to another … all of them, published on Thursday, 14 May 2009 7:57PMKind of a thought experiment. You have one HTMLElement with a bunch of unknown style properties set on an ID selector or Element selector, and you need to get them over to another, completely different Element. Paul and I came up with this: // transfer an element's styles to another element. // adam mcintyre & paul irish // public [...]
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Working with Omniture?, published on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 10:22PMData not going through? Try adding a call to s.tl() to flush things out and make sure they’re sent to Omniture. It seems to not want to send certain custom events by default.
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NikonUSA plug, published on Friday, 01 May 2009 3:13PMQUICK TAKE: Stay up to date on the latest news from Nikon, producer of much-heralded cameras, scanners, and other imaging Nikon site ranked #13 in the Top 100 photo sites. Not too shabby.
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