Friday, March 19, 2010

The right way to create DOM on the fly with jQuery

I was reviewing the source code of a project when I realized that it was painful to create DOM on the fly while retaining the human-readable syntax. However, it is now improved thanks to the new API from jQuery 1.4

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Browser bug when position:relative is ignored on table

Absolutely-positioned children of a relatively-positioned table will be positioned relative to the window, not the table.

A relatively positioned table with an absolutely positioned element placed inside of it will not calculate the correct position - relative to it's parent - but instead render the absolutely-positioned element in relation to the browser window itself. This does not reproduce when the same absolutely-positioned element is placed inside other relatively-positioned elements such as DIVs, however. Best suggestion, should this be an issue for your design, is to avoid the case entirely.

This issue originally documented by Peter-Paul Koch at quirksmode.org (Read original article).

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The power behind your website

This is a guest blog post from Doan Phong, my buddy, a web developer from Synble.

There might not be as so easy that nowadays everyone on earth with little money can create their own website. But what behind their website does really matter? There might be a website from a group of people working for free as a hobby with the aim to provide the information or to make a community around them. There might be non-profit organizations making a website just to provide the latest news or benefits for their users. There might be firms that want to make profit from the website.There are thousands of reasons that make a website exists, but let think about your website as a business behind.

A bug in WebKit which can not render outline for a table

The bug is simple. I can not apply an outline to a table. Below is the code I used to test in Chrome and Safari:

[sourcecode language="html"]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
table
{
border: thin solid green;
outline: thick dotted red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<table>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cell 3</td>
<td>Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
[/sourcecode]

In Firefox, you can see the outline drawn starting just outside the border edge. But in Chrome/Safari, you can only see the border.





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