I’ve always found it annoying that tabs don’t, well, tab in textareas on HTML pages. To be fair, they do what they’re supposed to and move on to the next field. But for a web app I’m working on I needed a way for the tab key to insert a tab.
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July 20th, 2008 | Posted in Coding, Web Links | Tags: Coding, customize, javascript, js, tips | No Comments
That was a really quick turnaround from 2.5 to 2.6. I seems like I just got all of my WordPress sites updated to 2.5.1 and last night I logged in and saw a message that WordPress 2.6 was ready for download. Looks like I’ve found a project for today.
But since we’re here anyway, here’s a short list of what’s new…
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July 16th, 2008 | Posted in WordPress | Tags: blog, download, release, WordPress | No Comments
I’m working on a program that is fairly Ajax heavy right now. Several of the JS routines need to call for XML from the server, and when there is no data to parse I’m sending a 204 header (no content) so that the JS can know there’s no data without having to parse the XML.
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July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Coding | Tags: ajax, bugs, ie, ie7, javascript, prototype | No Comments
WordPress is a insanely popular blogging platform, and with every release it gets better. It’s also very easy to install, even for those who have never installed a CMS on their server before.
The first step is to head over to WordPress.org and download the WordPress file. Click on the Download button on the top right of the screen.

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June 17th, 2008 | Posted in WordPress | Tags: blog, database, howto, install, mysql, php, WordPress | No Comments
A little bit of a rant here. Why do HTML table cells default to vertically centering the text? I have never done a design that it looked right for the cells to be vertically aligned to the middle. It seems that top aligned would be the most commonly used and for those times when middle or bottom aligned was the right look it would be pretty easy through CSS.
And so there is a little bit of value here is the code that I insert into pretty much every CSS style sheet that I do so that table cells will line up across the top.
CSS:
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td { vertical-align: top; }
Thoughts? Any thoughts on why middle is the default? Is it just a hold over from the older browsers?
June 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Coding, css, Design, html, rant | No Comments