Archive for August, 2004

Weird IE bug: inputs incorrectly inherit horizontal margins when they’re in a fieldset

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

I ran across a strange bug today in IE. I tried to find any other references to it on Google, but couldn’t find any. Here’s the issue: we have an input field within a fieldset that is in turn within some container object. The container object has some margins defined. For […]

Truly fluid and flexible columns?

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

Does anyone know of a way to code a truly fluid, flexible two-column layout using CSS? Where the column widths are based on their contents, like you can easily get with tables? Or at least, where the column widths are based on the content of one of the columns?

You see, this is what […]

Making accessKeys more usable

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

Access keys are a wonderful thing. I find myself using them all the time: Ctrl-T to open a new tab in Firefox, Alt-S to send an email in Outlook, Ctrl-S to save in editors, and of course Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, and Ctrl-V for clipboard operations.

Now, most web pages don’t require a lot of action from […]

The smell of a webpage

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

I’ve always thought the idea of being able to transmit smell along with a TV program or movie (smell-o-vision) and such was quite silly and potentially disturbing or disgusting. But as I was waiting for my build here at work to complete, I suddenly thought how nice it would be for my dad’s website […]

Looking out windows

Friday, August 20th, 2004

Are scriptlets in JSPs really that bad?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

This post will probably only make sense if you have worked with Java and JSP. Just a warning!

It seems to be commonly accepted that putting code in your JSP pages is a bad thing, at least since the “Model II” architecture (based on the MVC design pattern) and the JSTL tag library were introduced. […]