Archive for September, 2007
Drawing vector graphics with javascript
Sunday, September 30th, 2007In my trolling, I came across this javascript library for drawing graphics. It could be useful in the future…
md4, md5 and sha-1 cryptography in Javascript
Saturday, September 15th, 2007Here is a fabulous tutorial on using cryptography in Javascript to create a secure login system.
Filtered advertising
Saturday, September 15th, 2007There are some great suggestions at this blog for filtering Adsense advertising based on several visitor parameters.
Whitespace in XML - Firefox vs. IE
Saturday, September 15th, 2007Today, for a change, I am actually more approving of this particular difference between IE and Firefox. In this case, Firefox is a little TOO rigid in standards adherence, in my opinion. I’m talking about how the two handle whitespace in XML documents.
Adhering to the absolute letter of the standards law, Firefox interprets […]
Image map coordinates calculated incorrectly by IE7
Thursday, September 6th, 2007OK, this one really pissed me off!!! For days now, I have had a problem with a complex image map. As usual, it’s the same old tune - it works fine in Firefox, but barfs in IE. I have an image map that displays several East Texas counties. As the user rolls over the different […]
Careful with filenames when deploying to Linux
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Today, I lost a substantial amount of time troubleshooting a site deployment. My development platform is Windows, and the site was fully functional on my system. However, when I deployed it to the production server, suddenly files were not able to load. After attempting numerous variations of the path settings, it finally dawned on me […]