What an outrageous, perhaps justified statement.
The amount of times .NET developers struggle to make the simplest of changes to the output of a page blows my mind.
Whether it’s working around ‘features’ of the framework or customising one of their controls, it’s always just too dang hard.
Some developers are better than others, but it seems to […]
Having some fun with the html canvas element. linky linky
May be more difficult than building it..
The rich text editor is built into an ASP ‘control’ so it can be re-used and customized server-side, currently all of the HTML for the textarea, iframe and toolbars are put into the page through this control depending on it’s properties. A script tag is embedded into the […]
The Rich Text Editor in all it’s glory..
One thing I haven’t figured out is how to register key event listeners on the iframe’s in Opera.
I managed to get editorKeyUpHandler being called in Safari and Firefox but haven’t yet tamed Opera - Any clues?
I am loving Prototype, as I’ve learnt more about it over the last […]
I’ve looked in the past on multiple occasions to find a simple no-frills rich text editor and come up blank.
Of course there a good open-source fully-featured rte’s like tinyMCE and FckEditor, but they are a bit overkill for a simple editor. I found this one that comes close to what I was wanting […]
http://www.swin.edu.au/index_mb.php
Let’s take a look at some of the bigger changes in detail:
Before:
File-size:
Before:
Weighs in at 46.3 KB (47,505 bytes)
After:
17.1 KB (17,608 bytes)
CSS rules!
The ball is in motion to replace the current doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
with it’s standards-mode-triggering counterpart:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
This could potentially break existing pages in IE but it’s a move forward towards a more accurate rendering of the page cross-browser.
It’s getting difficult to maintain so many different renderings […]