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Archive for February, 2007

Accessible, degradable style control - part 1

This the first in a two part tutorial on how to create style control links to your web site to control font sizes and to control style sheets both from JavaScript and with JavaScript disabled browsers. This method will also keep the user on the page they changed the style from, and will continue to hold [...]

WordPress smiles

Has this always been here? Superb!

IE 7 breaks getElementById

First let me say this took me ages to work out how this was going wrong, and that this bug affects both IE6 and IE7. IE is treating the name attribute on forms as the ID attribute, causing the getElementById to return very unexpected results.

Can't delete from the trash?

Recently I tried to empty the trash on my Mac only to be continuously prompted with "cannot delete, file is locked". I found the guilty party was Windows Media Player (because the best place for that on a Mac is the trash - use VLC instead!). It didn't really matter what the file was, I couldn't remove [...]