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    MochaUI, ExplorerCanvas and dynamically-loaded JavaScript

    Published July 4th, 2008

    Another one of those really obscure ones… So as previously mentioned, I’m looking at using MochaUI in a CMS project I’m working on. Everything was going swimmingly, except that for some reason it was having rendering problems with (you guessed it) Internet Explorer. At first I thought that it must be a CSS problem, but [...]

    MooTools 1.2 Asset.css onload problem, and fix

    Published July 3rd, 2008

    As part of the experiments I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been looking at the feasibility of loading CSS on-the-fly. MooTools has a method to achieve this (Asset.css) but I found to my disappointment that its onload event only works in Internet Explorer, so in other browsers you have no way of knowing when the CSS has [...]

    Popups/dialog boxes in MooTools

    Published July 2nd, 2008

    I’m just starting preliminary work on a complete (and long overdue) rewrite of our project’s CMS. Right now I’m really just tinkering around, exploring some ideas. As part of this process I wanted to experiment with some dialog boxes, and not wanting to reinvent the wheel I decided to look for a ready-to-use project based [...]

    Firefox 3: portable version slowdown

    Published June 27th, 2008

    I’ve been using Firefox 3 for several months now (through various betas and release candidates) and I have to say I’m pretty happy with it. I’ve resisted blogging about it because I think more than enough words have already been written on the subject, but I’ll just say that I’ve been very happy with its [...]

    Monitor site uptime for free

    Published June 23rd, 2008

    A while back I thought up, but never implemented, a plan to develop a free web site uptime monitoring service. Basically, I spent a few hours thinking about features, wrote a few dozen lines of code and bought a smart domain name. It would’ve been great, seriously — there were other services out there but [...]

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