Category Archives: Web technologies

IE Development gets easier

Developing websites for Internet Explorer is not a fun task. Especially having to support the multitudes of different versions. Internally we use Multiple IE which tries to install IE 6 and older versions alongside the standard IE7 installation. It is a bit hit and miss and not very stable. My installation for example doesn’t let [...]

CDN for Javascript libraries..yes please

Google is great, it’s a fact.
Today they have launched an Ajax Library API. They are hosting the major Javascript Libraries (Jquery, dojo etc), and are providing a nice API to load them in, pick your version number etc.
They also serve it over a content delivery network, which means when a user requests the library file [...]

Finding propel objects

In the White October office we use a programing framework called Symfony for some of our projects. It provides us with well erm a framework to develop our web applications, it gives us a standard way of dealing with web requests, keeping our code in a standard set of folders and lots of handy tools [...]

CSS Float error detection

I’ve just read on Ajaxian about a jQuery snippet of code that checks a page you are working on has any CSS float errors. It highlights the elements that should have been cleared by putting an orange dotted browser around them.
I’m sure this will come in handy as its one of the major issues when [...]