Ok your website doesn’t look so good in IE8 because you’ve coded for IE7. Well thats because with it’s new standards compliance your ‘fixes’ have are incorrect in IE8. There is a workaround that doesn’t involve rewriting your web pages and that is to change the compatibility mode.
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IE 8 Doesn’t look so good…
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Web Development
IE 8 Beta 1 Released
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Microsoft just released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 yesterday. Touting more support for Internet standards and improving security IE 8 will try to live up to the hope that we had for IE7
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Expression Web 2 Beta Released
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Microsoft recently released a public beta of their web editing software Expression Web. It’s got a bunch of new features that are for some advanced editing.
Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development
HTML Entities
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Often I have customers ask me how do I get a copyright symbol into my web page? A quick solution is to simply copy and paste the symbol into a WYSIWYG editor or use the old windows alt-numberpad trick. But while it may work there is a proper way to get all kinds of unusual [...]
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Modify and compress your digital photos.
March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off
The New Image Compressor 2008 is a perfect choice for digital photography enthusiasts. It’s armed with complete image viewer, screen capture, photo retouch and of course image compression tools.
Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized · Web Development
Vector Magic gone commercial
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Just an update to my post on Vector Magic was a free tool from Standford that created vector images from bitmaps. (A bitmap image is basically made of data that says make this pixel red this one green, vector images have data that says draw a green line , make a red square). Well to [...]
Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development · Websites
XP Toolbar Missing Properties
February 14th, 2008 · No Comments
I like to tweak my desktop from time to time (i.e. often) and had a slight problem with a toolbar on my taskbar. I had removed the title and text and couldn’t un-dock, move or resize the toolbar. In this case it was the Quick Launch bar. Right clicking, windows context key did not seem [...]
Tags: Tech Support · Tools and Utilities