beastx on August 27th, 2008

VeerleHello. first of all I apologize for not post anything for a long time ago, but I was very busy in my work and I have no time left.

Today I post to tell them about something I step yesterday with my dear friend Internet Explorer.

Yesterday we were working with my team in the office because we had to get a release and we were fixing high priority bugs in the application.

One of the bugs that I has assigned to me was that when you were in debug mode in the application IE6 dispatch a javascript error.

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admin on July 29th, 2008

May be I be exaggerate with this title, but they are some functionality (may be util, may be not, you decide) that you can found in Firefox 3Mozilla pins (wallpaper)

  1. Duplicate tabs:
    If you press and hold the Ctrl key while you are clicking in one tab, and then you drag this tab, you obtain an duplicate tab with history included.
  2. Move tabs.
    You can move tabs to another Firofox instance, or to another place in the tabbar. You simply need make a click and drag the tab.
  3. Resize Search bar.
    You can change the size of the Search bar (search input), pressing and dragging in the space existing between the search box and url box.
  4. Keywords for Search Engines.
    Into the search box, if you select “Manage search engines…”, you will see that every added search engine have one option named “Keyword”.
    With the option “Edit Keyword” (enabled when you select a search engine of the list), you can write that you want and then simply write in the url bar this keyword followed by a space and the term that you want search. For example for Google you can write “gg beastx blog” and Firefox open Google search and make the “beastx blog” search directly. The Konkeror users have this functionality from a long time.
  5. Discontinuous multiple Selection.
    In a web page you can make multiple selections holding down the Ctrl key while you select the some text from diferents place of the page.
    This functinality don’t work with double click selection.Fun with firefox
  6. Integrated Firefox addons.
    You don’t need go to Mozilla add-ons page anymore to search and download one or more new add-on. You can go to the Tools Menu -> Add-ons and in the window that was opened select the “Get Add-ons” option. You can search that you need and install from here. (if you don’t found the add-ons that you need, you can also go to the Mozilla page and make the usual steps)
  7. Disable Plugins.
    If you browser begins to fail, may be the blame is one plugin, and so you can disable this plugin: go to Tools menu -> Add-ons and select the plugin that you want and press the disable/enable button


admin on July 22nd, 2008

WeeWar.com is an online game that lets players battle each other to win the war.

The game is simplistic in design, but fun to play. You can practice your strategy, join existing games, start your own, or observe games that are currently in action. The homepage features a live ticker of everything that’s going on with live games on the site. You can stay abreast of which users are taking which actions in their respective games. Unfortunately, the ticker updates so fast, it’s hard to click on a game for more details. There is a community involved with WeeWar as well. You can make friends, check out their WeeWar ranking, view their recent opponents and invite them to your games.

Turns have no real time limit and you get an email updating you when it is your turn.
After 24 hours the other players can vote to kick you from the game for taking too long, but generally I’ve found that most people get their turn in within a couple hours.

The are only about 8 unit types to fight with and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Part of each units stats are based on the terrain it is on and the type of unit it is attacking.

There is a nice variety of maps that range in size from 1v1 to 6 player maps.

The basic game is free, but there is a pro version. To become a Pro member for 2 weeks you have to invite 5 people to WeeWar.com or buy a Pro Account with you credit card. By becoming a Pro member you get access to more units and maps.

If anyone is interested in checking it out let me know your email address and I’ll send you an invite. If you’re already a member post your username in a comment and we’ll get a game going.

admin on July 22nd, 2008

19The difficulty many developers face when they start moving to table-less sites is getting the layout to work. Floats and positioning are easy enough for basic layouts, but start to become incredibly complex when moving to a more advanced level. When the push to move to pure CSS layouts became intense, the problem was - and is - that tables are still a lot more convenient in many cases, and there is sometimes no decent alternative without contorting yourself; you can’t even use the display: table family, as there’s no support in IE.

An interesting potential solution is in the CSS3 Advanced Layout module.

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admin on July 22nd, 2008

The history of this comic becomes known to all who was working or are working now with the great product of Microsoft “The Internet Explorer” (Ironic no? :P)

I am working in web development about 8 years ago, and always I have problems with IE, but when I have been working only with small or institutional web pages, the problems are very simple, cross browser incompatibilities, standards not respected, and the famous “IE box model” between other things.

But now I am working from 2 years ago approximately with very advance user interfaces for web applications and I found bugs very very strange.

For all of we that work every day with this browser, for that we will can calm nerves (generated by IE), I leave them here an fun comic.

admin on July 22nd, 2008

I always had been thinking that acronym “HTML” was mean “HiperText Markup Language”, and, I was thinking that it was a web programing language, but, recently I found a new significant of this acronym, and if that it’s true.. really after I was working with this 8 years, I should be an very expert in these topic. :P

With you the real significant of HTML:

admin on July 22nd, 2008

These are some funny posters that I’ve been finding in the Web and now I post several of these here.

I think that in the most of all companies (large companies) although do not put these posters, the managers think so mostly. :P

new incentive

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admin on July 21st, 2008

Last night I was surfing the web and was reading some articles and I was feeling very very happy when I found in the MA.TT blog one reference to an article of 37signals company.

From August 15, 37signals will be remove the support for IE6 in their all products.

That Voodoo EIn MA.TT blog was saying that this is not a right desicion, but I do not agree with that.

I think that the IE6, actually is the worst thing we, the web developers, can have, because all the problems already known about this MS product, so I think that the best thing we can pass is that the IE6 will be banished and forgotten for ever.

I thinks that we have all the blame about IE6 that endure for all these years, because we always accept the client requirement about the crazy things about IE when we develop web sites or applications web-based.

Really I think that if we will agree and we will decide not to endure more IE6 all of us, in a very short time IE6 will be dissapear!

admin on July 20th, 2008

I am quite excited. The Acid 3 web standards-compliance test is now up, and there’s no browser in existence yet that fully succeeds at the test.

Let me explain what these results are telling us before I show them. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards for Internet applications. For example, XHTML, HTML, CSS, etc. Acid 3 basically takes a lot of W3C’s newer standards and tests to be sure that the browser supports the features it should and that it behaves as it should when using them. Acid 3 is a collection of 100 different test suites to be sure that these standards are being met. So when I say that browser X gets a score of 55%, this means that browser X passed 55 of the 100 test suites.

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admin on July 20th, 2008

We have all seen the videos “Will it Blend?”. This time in the funny video we can see how is the new and coveted iPhone 3G after put it in a blender.