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Is it time to stop supporting IE6?
Posted on 19 April 2009 by Russ
Pressure to kill of IE6 is building amongst the web design and development community and some organisations have already foresaken it. But it’s probably not going to be that simple.
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Installing Magento Commerce and MAMP on Leopard 10.5.6
Posted on 16 April 2009 by Russ
Running Magento Commerce on Mac OSX is straightforward once you’ve got MAMP installed. This article covers a couple of hurdles you might have to clear in the process.
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Acid3 test results for IE8 and its competitors
Posted on 14 April 2009 by Russ
Microsoft’s IE8 has launched and purports to be a great leap forward from version 7. But how does it fair against it’s competitors in the Acid3 standards test devised by the Web Standards Project?
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Displaying an image in a Flex tooltip
Posted on 2 April 2009 by Russ
Adding a simple text tooltip in Adobe Flex is simple – the ToolTip Manager displays the tooltip text property of an object as default behaviour. More complex tooltips need a little extra work.
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Site logos and the H1 tag
Posted on 27 March 2009 by Russ
Developers have different views of how and when an H1 tag should be used, specifically where a site’s logo is concerned. This article suggests a resolution from a commercial standpoint.
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Simple cross-browser CSS transparency
Posted on 23 March 2009 by Russ
CSS transparency can be a pain, particularly in legacy browsers like IE6. This article covers a simple technique to achieve cross-browser transparency without JavaScript or an HTC fix.
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Blank page displayed after installing Magento Commerce
Posted on 18 March 2009 by Russ
Magento needs a decent PHP memory allocation to run and if it’s too low, you simply get a blank page in your browser. The fix is simple…