Archive for the 'Web Development' Category

In Internet Explorer, the window.resize event is fired when any element on the page is resized

Friday, March 5th, 2010

What’s wrong with IE developers? A window.resize event should happen if the user resizes the window, not if elements on the page change in size! The actual window isn’t changing sizes! And this weird behavior persists even in IE8?

Note: you might not see it unless you’re using a DOCTYPE. But you […]

Note to self: use trimDirectiveWhitespaces in JSPs after switching to Tomcat 6

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

So JSPs have the annoying property of preserving all whitespace from the source JSP file and outputting it. As soon as your JSP gets at all complex, with conditional logic, variables being set, and so on, you’ll find your HTML source output gets filled more and more with blank lines.

JSP 2.1 to the rescue! […]

Pet peeve of the day: “interweb”

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

It drives me nuts when people use the word “interweb”. It’s “web” or “internet”, people! Pick one!

Even writers you think would know better use it. And if they’re just being ironic, well they’re being a bit to subtle about it.

Be careful when using comma-separated CSS selectors: IE will ignore the whole rule if it doesn’t understand one of the selectors

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Today I was wracking my brain, trying to figure out why Internet Explorer wasn’t respecting some of the rules in my CSS file. It finally occurred to me that perhaps it was getting tripped up by the attribute selectors I had grouped into the same rule. IE, of course, doesn’t understand attribute selectors. […]

New laptop

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

On Friday I ordered a laptop from Dell. I’ve been wanting one for a while, and thanks to a great deal that my friend Rob found, I finally bought one. I am definitely looking forward to using my computer while sitting comfortably on the couch.

It’s a Dell Inspiron E1505 Intel Dual Core Processor […]

jQuery makes Javascript fun

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

…or at least it claims to, and after reading up on it on the jQuery website, I’m thinking they might be on to something.

I’ve pretty much spent the whole day today at work staring at Javascript code, reading about different Javascript libraries, and trying to see if there’s anything out there that will make my […]