Note: if you move the mouse around real fast while elements are switching visibility in IE/PC, the window.event.toElement reference can intermittently be null
Category: Legacy
WebReference: Pure CSS2 Rollovers had the last bit I needed to fix the drop-down menu I’ve been working on (specifying 100% width in IE/PC to get the display:block link to activate properly). I still can’t find a way to get around specifying the width for the ul of menu items, but that’s ok, I guess.
This seems to work in everything I’ve tested but Opera so far, but I’m too tired to look into it right now. Maybe I should have tried basing this off of the nde js instead of the gazingus menus. …or better yet, find a less draining/frustrating line of work.
(The technical problems are actually the least of the concerns. With the re-org of the top menus, it’s time to look at rationalizing how the rest of the navigation behaves; currently the title blocks and sidebar navs jump between levels and displaying sibling/child items. This really has been in need of fixing since the whole ‘just get something up’ rush last summer.)
Subject: Netscape is dead (apparently, so is devedge – and it was just starting to get useful)
On the bright side, at least there won’t be any more Netscape 4 releases.
Mozilla.org has gottena a facelift to coincide with the formation of the Mozilla Foundation. Among the improvements, it’s now much easier to download.
To obtain an SSH fingerprint, run ‘ssh-keygen -l‘ on a .pub file. For more fingerprinting fun, see ssh-keyscan.
I was speaking with a friend and he doubts that Bush won’t get re-elected because he believes that most of America is too happy with Bush. While I don’t entirely disagree about Bush’s re-election chances, I have to hope that my friend is “misunderestimating” the ability of the American public to see what’s going on, despite what FOX News might be saying (recent polls seem to some mixed signs).
“Space” sickness OR “Mission: Space” scrubbed. Repeatedly. With disinfectant. – Jim Hill on Disney’s new Mission: Space ride.
I’ve been working on a presentation (on USC’s Pubcookie roll-out), and as usual, have been getting sidetracked by the mechanics of the presentation (I’ve been testing it on Mozilla only; in theory it should mostly work in Safari and IE, maybe even Opera) and have been adding little DOM-based doo-dads and gee-gaws.
Last Spring I’d taken Tantek’s SXSW 2003 presentation and gave it a slight overhaul, adding key-events and anchor fragments (allowing slide bookmarking). Today, I’ve spent time futzing with some auto-resizing functionality that currently autoresizes iframes, but should will be adding something to auto-resize all slides tonight auto-resizes and adds scollbars to slides.
- MSDN: Measuring Element Dimension and Location
- Mozilla DOM Reference: Example 6: getComputedStyle (see Bug 32169 [fixed])
- Glazblog: document.getElementsByClass() – including funky XPath version; thanks Jesse
blogs:
- Holovaty.com – the guy behind the incredibly hip Lawrence Journal-World sites
- Dylan Schimann’s Blog
- Matrix Essays
- In Passing
- John R Chang’s Blog
- blog.shrub
- Slate (redesign post)