If you search the word ‘Christmas’ on Google you get candy canes to separate search results from advertising! Aaahhhhh.
Harry Bailey
Microsoft Plans Quick Fix for IE
As a webdeveloper I know a lot about Internet Explorer.
The number of security issues it has and the none standards complient way it renders webpages often makes me wish they would say “You know what, lets just stop making browsers, we clearly aren’t up to the task, lets just suggest everyone go and get firefox instead”
But instead they suggest this useless list of tips:
Play Any System Sound Through Airtunes Speakers
Airtunes speakers and iTunes are best friends and they don’t want to let anyone else play with them.
Well tough because now Airfoil is playing the good parent and making Airtunes play nice with everyone else too.
Install Airfoil on Mac OS X or Windows XP / Vista and you can select any application to grab the sound from and send it to your Airtunes speakers.
jQuery Hover Listener Unbinding
jQuery has a great helper function called hover which takes two functions as it’s values.
$('#hover_div').hover(function()
{
/* something to do on mouseenter */
},
function()
{
/* something to do on mouseleave */
});Great when you want a simple way of doing something when your mouse enters or leaves the selected element(s).
Disable Select Options in Internet Explorer
Put your hands up if you hate developing for Internet explorer….
That would be most of you then.
I can’t stand its special ways of doing things, so when I find an easy work around it makes me happy.
The latest one I have had to find and put into practice is a method for disabling some Select dropdown options in a form. Internet explorer doesn’t support the disabled attribute on option elements. The following code will only work in standards complaint browsers (not in IE 6 or 7):