Rob Eberhardt

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 Friday, March 31, 2006

Via Dean Edwards' Links, meet HedgerWow's <SELECT>-Free Layer, a CSS-only workaround for Internet Explorer's SELECT bug with z-index.

It's not quite clear from the demo, but I think the magic is an absolutely-positioned + transparent + huge IFRAME inside the layer to show.  C'est trĂ©s hacky, but it still seems better (in a way) than the usual dynamic hide/show javascript approach.

Here's hoping that Microsoft will quickly windows-update us all with IE7 (which fixes this bug, hoorah), and free us of these sHACKles.

3/31/2006 2:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 

 Tuesday, March 21, 2006

I went to grab the new IE7 beta, and couldn't get past this complete Flash mess:

Yuck! ...It even says "everything you need, nothing you don't" -- very much unlike this Flashturbation.

I'd guess the Flash designer hasn't seen Microsoft's (great) parody of its own bad design habits, The Microsoft Ipod:

3/21/2006 1:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

 Monday, March 20, 2006

In this blog's 1.25yrs alive: It's received 193 legit posts and comments, and 1388 comment spams. (And that's with a basic spam filter in place to catch the obvious 80%!)

It seems like the breeeport experiment might've accelerated it. It didn't seem to affect overall visits tho.

...Man, I gotta finish switching over to dasBlog soon.

3/20/2006 1:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |