I started learnign .NET coupld of weeks ago and while I am (surprisingly) finding it quite a charm it comes with its own bag of pecularities (read features). Aparently MS made it possible that controls could be rendered with different html in different browsers depending on the level of support. While I anticipate it will be very useful in future when I am not spending 90% of time digging throught MSDN documentation, it resulted in a of hear pulling session, but then google came to the rescue.

Aparently there are browser files that when palced within App_Browsers folder in the root of your project will affect what and how gets rendered.

There is wealth of info out there on the subject. These are the articles that helped me to sort this out:

• Safari browser and asp:menu
• Latest Browser Configuration Files
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5

I always had an issue with Firebug’s inspector toggle shortcut (Shift+Ctrl+C). It never worked for me. I recently did quite a bit of googling, which revealed that a few people had the same issue, all remedies they suggested did not work for me.

Eventually I went into Tools > Firebug > Customize Shortcuts, then changed Toggle Inspecting value to something else, closed the window, then repeated procedure but on the last step I reset Toggle Inspecting back to original value (there is a button for it). And gues what!!! It started working!

P.S. as a result of this research I found a great shortcut management extension Keyconfig

Just learned a new thing about CMYK JPGs and IE. Aparently the two do not mix. In these three browser versions (6,7 and 8, could not check older versions) JPGs saved in CMYK colourspace would not load and simply display a “red cross” (a.k.a. missing image) placeholder.

IE9 however behaved well, and displayed image without any hickups.

The solution was rather easy, load JPG in photoshop and just resave it. I guess any other image converter tool would do the trick too.

A few more words re this issue could be read form this page.

I recently had an issue with some flash movies appearing above all content pneumonia the page. I tried giving absolutely positioned elements a very high zindex, bit it did not help art all. Search in Google for similar problem revealed that flash can be played in several modes.

By default all movies are played in window mode which allowes them to perform the best but such oddities as flash always on top will be happening.

Fixing my issue was rather easy. I just needed to add a wmode=opaque to the flash object. Job done.

I write php scripts in NetBeans, and recently after upgrading to the latest version of Xampp I had an issue with running Xdebug on it.
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I was searching for a free webhosting for Facebook (FB) sandbox. After trying out a few only one happened to have all necessary features for FB development. The main issue with all others was that CURL PHP was not enabled. It is required by FB library to make api calls. Some that had CURL enabled did not allow connections over HTTPS, which also is a must for FB api calls.

So, the winner is Free Web Hosting Area

Other hosting services I tried:

• Zymic
• EU.pn
• 000webhost.com

Everything about float CSS property.

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0103.htm

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/01/css-float-theory-things-you-should-know/

In order to make your URLs in Joomla a bit more understandeble you need to do the following
a. enable modrewrite module in apache
b. tweak Joomla’s .htaccess file

This is how I did it:

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Excellent collection of tutorial articles for Mootools JavaScript library.

http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/mootorial

A great article telling about how to create CSS+JS tooltips.

http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php