Web Designer and Developer
Here’s a weird JavaScript FireFox bug…
In OS X, for some reason the following javascript was not positioning the FireFox browser window to the top left of the screen.
window.moveTo(0, 0);
Not sure what causes the problem but it seems to work find if you position the window 1 pixel lower.
window.moveTo(0, 1);
This looks interesting…
Easy-to-integrate online website content management.
Adobe InContext Editing appears to be a move on from Adobe Contribute, disposing of the local application and providing a Rich Internet Application (RIA) which will allow you to edit predetermined areas of your web site, presumable defined by Dreamweaver-style editable areas. This it great as it will
Apple today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday. Safari 3 beta is available as a free download:
Why do you sometimes see yellow forms fields on web sites?
What are they and why are they there?
The answer is Google Toolbar. If you have Google Toolbar installed and the AutoFill option enabled, Google will remember your personal information so that it can automatically populate form fields for you. Fields such as name, address and phone will all turn yellow if AutoFill is turned on – the default setting.
Although it is good useability for these fields to be highlighted in some way, as a web designer you may not want yellow form fields on your web page for aesthetic reasons.
So, how do you override it…?
Sounds easy doesn’t it!
However, I find that this doesn’t always work, particularly if you are viewing Flash sites, so I tend to follow this slightly more lengthy procedure which usually works.