Archive for March, 2008
How to Stop Wordpress from Pinging Itself
WordPress by default sends pings to your own site every time you link to other posts on your own blog. This appears as a pingback on the post you have linked to, in the comments section. Some people might see this as a feature, allowing you to leave a trail of related posts. I find [...]
Thickbox 3.1 IE7 Positioning Bug
As previously mentioned in this post Thickbox 3.1 is currently broken in many revisions of Internet Explorer 7. Specifically, those revisions who return the substring “MSIE 6.0″ in the user-agent string.
Update: July 2008
This patch fixes a problem caused when certain installations of IE7 are incorrectly identified as IE6 causing the thickbox window to be positioned [...]
jQuery hide/show Safari Bug
I’ve noticed problems in Safari with the hide/show methods of jQuery on and off for quite a while now. Basically they don’t work. Correct me if i’m wrong. This behaviour also extends to the fadeIn/Out methods.
The problem can be circumvented to applying css rules directly to the element(s) in question.
// This will fail in Safari
$(element).hide()
// [...]
Kevin Bacon is a Bastard
Do I need to write something to go with this?
Safari Text Replacement Bug
Credit goes to my homeslice Rick Nunn this afternoon for discovering a fairly major bug in the new JavaScript text replacement I’ve recently developed and implemented on this site.
Of course, had I bothered to test it at all using Safari I might have noticed it myself. But that’s not the point. So, thanks Rickzor.
So, [...]
