Christian Heilmann

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Internet Explorer vs. Mozilla #12133

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

There is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek comparison of Fx and MSIE on BBSpot. For a change, it does not compare the technicalities of the two browsers, but the things that really matter, like the stereotypical users and if it can help you to get laid.

Interesting liquid layout

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

I just looked at the new Rammstein web site www.rammstein.com and was quite impressed by the way it deals with different browser sizes. Resize your browser window to see what I mean. Nicely done, that.

Printing background images

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

One of our clients complained that our print stylesheet doesn’t work as the backgrounds don’t get printed.
This is a setting of the browser, not a CSS issue. In MSIE, it is part of the Advanced Options of the Internet Settings:
printing backgrounds in MSIE
In Firefox, it is an option in the File – Page Setup dialogue:
printing backgrounds in Firefox

[tags]printing, webdevtrick[/tags]

MSN.com all new, all shiny

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

Microsoft seem to feel some of the pressure web standard and accessibility awareness created, and published a new version of MSN.com that does not use any tables for layout. While there are still a lot of validation errors, and it gives the impression that CSS-P needs to be blander than table layouts (they ditched a lot of images and screen furniture), it is nice to see Microsoft at least try to follow a standard they haven’t established.

Captchas cracked

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Generally the safest way to ensure real humans enter data are so called captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing-Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – distorted pictures with words in them you are asked to read and type in). Now, these are not only an accessibility issue (how would a blind user type them in?), but clever spammers found a way around them, using free porn and gullible people.