This evening out here

Thursday, July 21, 2011

another test of iExpression, with another photo, to see if the patch to fix category tags worked.

Lago di Lugano, this evening

iExpression test

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Just a little test post from iExpression, with a photo attached to make it less boring

Internet Explorer negative margin bug

Friday, December 17, 2010

I think this is worth mentioning: I spent the better part of today trying to fix a layout bug in Internet Explorer 7, where a negative margin was applied to a floated image container. The image was cut off at the edge of the containing element.

This is actually a well known-bug - in theory - and a reliable fix is to add a “position: relative” CSS rule to the floated container.  But it didn’t work.

After a lot of research and tearing out of hair, followed by careful debugging (aka “wildly flailing about”), I discovered the reason.  The containing element had a Internet Explorer proprietary filter applied to it, to give a semi-transparent fill:

  filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#59000000, endColorstr=#59000000);
/* For IE 8*/
  -ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#59000000, endColorstr=#59000000)”;
border: none;

On removing this, everything worked perfectly.  So I just used a semi-transparent PNG as a fill image instead.  Probably more efficient anyway.

Admin Note - Membership

Friday, November 05, 2010

Whoa.  I was finally getting around to looking at spicing up some of the more mundane stuff here, when I discovered that the whole member system was broken.  I think it’s fixed now. Sorry….

Old Git Blues

Thursday, November 04, 2010

So, call me an old git (the first part is accurate enough), but due to various circumstances which I suppose I shouldn’t go into on the interwebs, but involve a certain person acting like a spoilt child, my music soundtrack of the week has been heavily dominated by Supertramp (who funnily enough were the first live band I ever saw, back in Antwerpen when I was so much younger than today).

Anyway.

Obviously we all know the big hits, but Supertramp didn’t end with Breakfast in America, or indeed the fab Brother Where You Bound, but never actually stopped but swerved into much more Blues/Jazz territory. I finally got to listen to their most recent studio release, Slow Motion, last night, and, well, it’s pretty good.  The title song “Slow Motion” is great, and the closing “Dead Man’s Blues” is pretty much where I’m at, and sounds uncannily like something Neil Young or Dylan should have written.