Web Development: Hard to explain

I can’t be the only web developer that gets frustrated with the intricacies of developing something that can be viewed on so many different platforms.

Working on a website tonight I was checking my work in 5 different browsers! I was mainly developing in Firefox 3, while checking in Internet Explorer 7, Opera, Google Chrome, and Safari for Windows. There is nothing more frustrating than having it look perfect (aside from Safari’s totally different font rendering) in 5 browsers except for Internet Explorer. And all that because it doesn’t understand how to properly render the following style statement

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Looks harmless enough, right? Well it cost me a few hours of fighting with my code, leaving no time for GTA IV.

To add insult to injury, when I shared my frustrations with my better half, she couldn’t understand and, while doing her best to help, only caused more frustration and distraction away from the real issue at hand.

I finally got it solved and hope for dear life that Internet Explorer 8 will do a better job of interpreting CSS.

As a final thought, I was too chicken to even take a look at how IE 6 is displaying it.

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Wordpress MU Cookie Error

I finally solved this error after spending all day on it….
wordpress mu “ERROR: WordPress requires Cookies but your browser does not support them or they are blocked.” – Google Search

The solution, that I haven’t seen posted anywhere, lies in how you specified the domain name when installing WPMU. I specified simply “blogs” when I should have used “blogs.domain.com”. This caused the cookie to be created with “blog.local” and IE and Firefox did not accept that.

Thank God for Opera which accepted it and let me view the cookie.

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Firefox Addons

I’ve created the following Addons for Firefox. Here you can find local updated copies. More info can be found at the Mozilla Addons links provided.

The Blinklist Toolbar plugin is now deprecated. Blinklist now has their own Firefox extension (available from their site) and I suggest you use that instead.

Last year I converted my Firefox extension (the Blinklist…



Last year I converted my Firefox extension (the Blinklist toolbar) in time for the Firefox 2.0 launch and today got my T-shirt. Yay!

New Firefox Logo

I believe this is currently the front-runner for the new Mozilla Firefox logo and I am inclined to agree…

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