A pretty cool video – I wish I’d been there.
Archive for February, 2008
I’ve tried various clunky fixes for the IE6 PNG transparency problem, but yesterday ran across a wonderful little script from Angus Turnbull (from 2005, but no matter).
I tried it yesterday on a CSS background image and it works like a charm, but ran into some problems today trying to use it on a floated image.
Here’s the thing: when using it for a background image, follow the directions under ‘Transparent Backgrounds’ here and it works perfectly. But when you use it for a foreground image, you have to have a blank .gif file on the server, and you have to edit one line in Angus’ .htc file to point to that blank .gif.
This info is not obvious at all and I was really confused until I read Angus’ page thoroughly. But after loading the blank .gif and editing the iepngfix.htc file, all was well.
This is one of the easier implementations of a PNG fix I’ve seen. It uses the ‘behavior’ property in CSS, a Microsoft-proprietary thing and won’t affect browsers that already support PNG’s correctly.
I spent three solid hours today Googling for a plugin that would let me display an RSS feed from another site in a WordPress page, not in a sidebar widget (I don’t want to use the widget because the names of my RSS feeds are too long, they spill over the header image for the widget and I don’t want to alter those). I found so many potential tools that either didn’t work when I installed them or had a huge list of tasks associated with getting them to work…
I was really getting frustrated but I just found FirstRSS, loaded it up and (lo and behold) it works. No tweaking, no coding, very, very sweet. Exactly what I was looking for.
