We came across an error today with our drop down menu system that uses a PNG-24 semi transparent drop shadow image around the border where the transparency would appear black in IE 7 and IE 8. After searching and trying all possible fixes we found the solution to the problem and it was quite simple. [...]
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IE 7/8 PNG-24 transparency issue
Posted in Browsers, ColdFusion, Design, Javascript, Programming Also tagged Browsers, CSS, Development, jQuery 2 Comments
The fear of Javascript Frameworks
I have always been one of those developers who like to “write my own stuff” because nothing produced by another person could ever be as good as mine! I’m sure the majority of developers out there feel the same way. But as they say with experience comes wisdom and I have come to realise that [...]
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ColdFusion 8 CFWindow caching problem
This iteration of ColdFusion is absolutely wonderful. Now anyone can AJAX and look like a DHTML guru with just a few lines of code. A previous post outlined the problem of not being able to refresh the CFWindow content. CF8 uses the EXT js library as of version 1.1.1 (I think) which by default does [...]
ColdFusion 8 HTML CFGrid href attribute with JavaScript function
I was going crazy trying to figure out why my href in the cfgridcolumn tag was not working with the new CFGrid in html mode. Apparently the appendKey attribute of the CFGrid tag is set to TRUE by default and this forces the href attribute to be a valid url. If you change the appendKey [...]
Stupid IE…Again!
I am hopeful that there will come a time when Microsoft’s IE team will learn that developers really need error messages that make some sense! I am working on this application that uses the Yahoo! UI library and in particular the menu widget. It works fine on Firefox and on IE on my local network [...]
