Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Among the more persistent bugs I have been chasing recently involves a set of interrelated windows. The case in point was a parent window (A) that opened a child window (B) via JavaScript. The child window (B) was set to check whether the parent window (A) is still open before ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
An interesting question that came up today during work was how to wrap text in a table cell that does not contain any line breaks or spaces. For example:
ThisIsCell1
ThisIsCell2
We want the text inside the cells to wrap to the next line instead of extending the table size. There are three ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Sometimes you can guess that a software product has become mainstream enough when a big company starts supporting it. I think this is exactly what just happened with FireFox: Google just announced support for "pre-fetching" - a feature ONLY available on Mozilla browsers. This is a refreshing breath of air ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
(TurboTax now works fine with FireFox on Linux. This post will remain here for historical purposes.)
I have using Intuit's online version of TurboTax for the past few years to file my taxes. However, this was the first year I used it in Linux. Logically, since it is a web based ...
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
Today I came across a VERY strange IE bug - a certain page would not work in IE6 under Windows XP SP2, while it worked fine in Opera, Mozilla and Firefox. The message shown would be as follows:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site [url] Operation aborted
After more digging, I ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Recently I ran across a rather strange error with different browser. Popup windows could be maximized in Opera and Mozilla, but not in IE. The code I was using was as follows (click here to try):
window.open('', '', 'width=200,height=200');
After some digging, I ran across the following snippet in MSDN:
When the sFeatures ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Last night I have been trying to login into the credit card site for a major US banking institution and to my suprise, nothing worked. I tried out FireFox, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. All of them failed but to my suprise one browser worked - LYNX. Yes, the text based ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
The Register and SANS ISC are reporting a major security hole in Java plugin which makes applets work in browsers. This hole allows JavaScript access to stuff which should normally be restricted. ALL BROWSERS utilizing the Java Plugin are affected on ALL platforms including IE, Opera, Mozilla Suite and Firefox. ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
I have been using Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar for Mozilla and Firefox in conjunction with Daniel Savard's Live HTTP Header extension for a while. Recently I challenged a friend of mine who is a big Opera fan to find a similar tool for Opera. He came up with 1 ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
For Mozilla and Firefox there is MozillaZine; for Internet Explorer there is Microsoft Watch and now for Opera there is a new blog - OperaWatch. Started by a friend of mine this "Unofficial Opera Blog" seeks to bring you the news on everything Opera.
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