Archive for the ‘pixels and dots’ Category

Old news is new.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Resurfacing in Mac news circles is the “Open Safe Files” issue in Safari. Well if you slept thru it before, go into your Safari preferences and disable “Open Safe Files”. It is that simple.

Read more at MacMerc.com

Accessibility reaches a critical mass

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Target is taken to task for site accessibility with lawsuit. Start your reading here and of course check out Zeldman’s take.
Too bad this the only way corporations will listen.

Crashing IE6

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

While testing sites I rarely get the opportunity to test printing on all browsers/platforms. Well the other day a client comes back to me and claims that their site has been crashing and always has when trying to print.

Here is the problem:

* site crashes when attempting to print in internet explorer 6
* site is template based, all pages but first share the same template
* only some pages crash while printing

I start testing why this is happening and get no where. I call in backup. A quick IM to Joe D’Andrea and he was on the case. Within an hour he has a quick fix. Thinking there is something bigger going on he calls in Vincent Murphy to assist.

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