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March 2009

Flash and the z-index problem, solved

I was always told that Flash would render on top of everything else. That’s it. There’s no way around it. It meant that whenever I had a design using, say, suckerfish menus, I’d have to be careful to ensure that there was enough space below the menu to accommodate for Flash’s nasty little habit. It turns out that the notorious they were wrong. Again. It’s amazing just how many times ‘they’ don’t get it quote right, and that the majority of people still believe them.

Create a unique gallery by using z-index and jQuery

Quite an interesting post about creating (another) image gallery using jQuery. This one is not another of those lightbox clones though. This one uses a clever combination of z-index and movement to create the effect of looking through a stack of photographs as you would if they were in your hand.

Using a for loop, print the numbers from 0 to 5

I’ve been training for a ZCE certification, and found myself getting quite annoyed with some of the more obvious questions. One of the questions in the beginning of the test was which of the pieces of code would output the numbers 0 to 5 using a for loop. I mean, come on! I present some of my more creative and twisted ways of completing said task.

IE Death March

So today I dropped support for IE6. Infact, if you’re using IE6, you won’t even see this post, you’ll see a blue screen of death. IE Death March is (I think) a brilliant idea and please help me and many others to start an internet revolution.

10 fixes that solve IE6 problems

As you may know, I’m a big fan of not using CSS hacks. They clutter up your stylesheets making them unreadable and very hard to maintain. This article from sitepoint explains how to nudge (surprise surprise) IE6 into displaying your pages correctly without having to use hacks or IE specific stylesheets. Definitely worth a read.

Sub pixel problems in CSS

John Resig has done a bit of research into what happens in different browsers when you do things like setting the width of a div to 25% when it’s parent is 100 pixels. It’s quite an interesting read, and might help to explain why layouts break in different ways in the various browsers.

Me on the intertubes

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Where to find me

I can be found fairly regularly at Oxford Geek Nights, OxTuttle and other general nerding out activities in and around Oxford.

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From the aviary

Was having a decidedly crap day of development. Just got much better. It's nice when things go your way. #win 1 day ago

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These posts were written at the time of writing and may not still be accurate or reflect my opinions any more. In fact, they may not even be correct or representative at the time of writing. You see, when I write, I just write. I don't do that thing which they always told you to do at school and plan what you want to write first. Because of this, there will almost certainly be a load of typos, grammar errors and incorrect facts and references. If this makes you feel queasy, I apologise that you had to get to the bottom of the page to read this, and hope that some day, you'll learn to forgive me.

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Slightlymore started off all too formally for my liking. In the depths of the archives, you'll find tutorials. However if you read the more recent posts, you'll find them a lot more playful and about fun and interesting stuff.

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