http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown Web stuff that may be helpful - Web Standards & CSS Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:29:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/net-developers-are-incompetent/ I don't use absolute positioning all that often but have found a new use for it, setting dimensions of an object to occupy dimensions that are hard to get. Like 100% -200px. By giving an element opposing position values i.e left:0 and right: 0; you are saying make this elements ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/absolute-positioning-setting-dimensions/ Menu's built by javascript and Menu's with text-decoration: blink; http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/soul-destroying/ If anyone is looking for a job in software development, you should strongly consider this software development position at pageup people Please Contact me if you're interested in finding out more - Or just go ahead and apply at the page above. I've only been with pageup 3 months but i'm thoroughly ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/web-development-position-at-pageup-people/ Having some fun with the html canvas element. linky linky http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/bezier-curves-with/ There's many incarnations of lightbox js that have popularized this approach as a kind of dialog box. It turns out it's wonderfully simple to achieve in modern browsers: [html] Some content [css] #overlay { position: fixed; /* A marvelous property */ z-index: 100; top: 0; left: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; background: #000; filter: alpha(opacity=75); -moz-opacity: 0.75; opacity: 0.75; } #dialog { height: 400px; width: 700px; margin: 0 ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/overlays-and-fixed-positioning-including-ie6/ Firstly, PageUp People has a new website and it's pretty sexy. The menu's took some work to get right in IE6< - but nothing unusual there. I have an interesting challenge at work at the moment, we are creating a new application that will act as a kind of portal ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/png-8s-and-alpha-transparency/ Prototype has been given the go-ahead for testing in page up admin system. Yay, as it makes my job more enjoyable. http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/page-up-on-prototype/ 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 ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/actually-incorporating-the-rich-text-editor/ 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 ... http://www.byteclub.net/blog/mbrown/rich-text-editor-and-another-iteration/