Saturday, August 7, 2010

How to turn non-resizeable windows into resizeable

DigiTallis has a neat utility, called REsizeEnable that allows you to convert any non-resizable window into a resizeable one.


Simply download the ZIP file, extract into a dir and run. An icon will appear in the taskbar to let you know the app is running.


Open any window and you will notice that you can now resize it!


ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Neat way to address IE6-9 in CSS

Update 29mar2010: Added the \9 bit for IE8 and below
Update 27apr2010: Added note about importance of order
Update 3aug2010: Added '>' for IE7-specific targeting.



I just saw an article by Jeffrey Way on how to address IE6, IE7 and/or IE8 in CSS.
 #someElement {
background: red;              /* modern browsers */
background: green\9;        /* IE 8 and below */
>background: green;         /* IE 7 exclusively */
*background: green;         /* IE 7 and below */
_background: yellow;        /* IE6 exclusively */
}

It is important to note that you need to write your CSS in the correct sequence:



#someElement
{
/* CSS for real browsers goes first */
background: green;        /* IE 8 and below */

/* CSS for Microsoft's shamefull browsers goes next in version descending order */


background: pink\9;        /* IE 8 and below */
>background: red;         /* IE 7 exclusively */
*background: yellow;         /* IE 7 and below */
_background: black;        /* IE6 exclusively */
}

Thanks Jeffrey, that is a neat trick!

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!




Discover your browser's capabilities

[updated 3aug2010]

http://www.html5test.com is a web site that shows you a complete, item by item listing of your browser's HTML5 compliance.

(Screen shot is from Chromium 6.0.464.0 (52077))



















findmebyip is a web site that shows you a (very!) complete list of your browser's capabilities, such as CSS3 and HTML5 compatability.

Very nicely presented!

(partial screenshot)























ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!
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