Category: Web Development
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Web Dev Challenge: 1996 Compatibility
The year is 1996, grunge is on it’s last dying breaths, gas is cheap and the internet is rapidly making it’s way out of nerdy basements into the mainstream. The dot-com bubble is underway and web sites are ugly! I’ve often wondered if the terrible web design back then was completely due to the technological…
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CAPTCHA FAIL!
If you’re going to invent your own non-standard CAPTCHA, please provide instructions! I tried entering ALL the letters, ONLY the letters with a mouse pointer and ONLY the letters WITHOUT a mousepointer. Nothing worked.
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Bizzare Firefox 3 HR Tag Rendering
I stumbled across this bizare new rendering bug in Firefox 3. CSS: hr { background: url(“bar.gif”) no-repeat; width: 385px; height: 15px; border: 0; } HTML: <hr noshade=”noshade” /> Here’s what it looks like in Firefox 2. Now Firefox 3. It would appear that Firefox 3 is adding a border-radius value to all <hr/> tags. Removing…
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This is why webprogramming sucks…
Run-time languages don’t have compilers.
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better bandwidth protection: revisited
I meant to post this a couple of days after my initial bandwidth protection post, but alas, updating this site is usually the last thing on my mind. Firstly, I glazed over something I probably should have explained in more detail. That is, the php file masquerades as the media file. The media files should…