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29
Nov
2007
Hacking CSS
There’s quite a few links out there that talk about the different methods of hacking IE and Firefox along with many other browsers.
Having been developing in Adobe Flex for the past while I’ve been ignoring the CSS issue but in my latest project I had to face the beast. My goal was to find a way in which I can block particular tags in both IE and in Firefox. so here’s what I found after doing some research.
For a page where you have an internal <div id=”pathway_text_inner”> the following will be ignored in Firefox:
#pathway_text_inner{
_width: 900px;
_padding-left: 10px;
_padding-top: 7px;
}
Pretty much anything that is preceded by an underscore is ignored in Firefox.
Similarly the following is ignored in IE7.
*:lang(en) #pathway_text_inner{
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
height: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 890px;
}
where <body lang=”en”> .
I know there’s been quite a bit written about the subject but I couldn’t find the exact answer from the first Google search that I performed. Hence this post.
Cheers.
10
Sep
2007
Getting your web optimization hat on.
A friend of mine asked me a question: “Do you know anything about Search Engine Optimization?”.
Sadly I had to respond that ‘No, not really’. Neadless to say, eager to learn more about the subject and knowing that soon in the near future I would have to look in to the subject my self I started Googling.
Without long I came across two interesting articles, ‘A modern approach to Flash SEO‘ – related to designing website in Flash and dealing with the known problem that Google might/might-not parse .swf files when crawling through web pages. A second article dealt with an example of how when developing a website the QA rarely takes in to account the prespective of a search engine web-crawler to which I suggest examining the ‘SEO Tools – Spider Simulator‘ article.
Thats it for now, stay tuned for more info.
6
Nov
2006
Bold Objects
Click here to see what it looks like.
Their intent is to use Adobe Flex 2 technology to conquer the web world.
Here is a little background information on Adobe Flex:
Adobe® Flex™ 2 software is a rich Internet application framework based on Adobe Flash® that will enable you to productively create beautiful, scalable applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. It includes a powerful, Eclipse™ based development tool, an extensive visual component library, and high-performance data services enabling you to meet your applications’ most demanding needs.
