Dave Riley

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

Frantic cleaning before Rie gets back... # So pleased my family is back...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19

@rungermy @Msnicke I'll let you know at the moment I have more urgent problems site goes live tomorrow morning :-) in reply to rungermy # another late night coding, going to have a tea and sandwich break....

Image button found guilty of not being valid xhtml horror!!!

The .net image button seems so innocent but a trip over to w3c.org and the html validator soon exposes the terrible truth. Prepare yourself for this, sit down, have a large brandy ready... It renders border="0" even though you haven't put one in there yourself! try it! Put any xhtml 1.0 transitional site into the validator: http://validator.w3.org/ And watch in utter horror while your site is rejected as a bad example to kids everywhere. So what is going on here? And is there anyway...

Flash Video not running on IIS 6 windows server 2003

Seen this one before but while chatting with some (tech) friends I discovered most seemed to think that this should just work out of the box, well unfortunately it doesn't. But adding support on you windows driven website isn't that hard, just a few short steps. So I thought it might be useful to explain here: You need to add the .flv MIME type to IIS: First click on the site to configure in IIS, right click - select "Properties". Under HTTP Headers Tab, select "File Types" button...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

Going to bed far too late. Life is too short... # Oops running late... # bacon and egg sandwich - brown sauce # testing cross browser compatibility, FF=ok, Chrome=ok, safari=ok, ie7= :-( not ok weird spacing oh joy... # css-ing away, almost there now! # @JesCoolbaugh Yes will do that once I have IE behaving. Almost there. in reply to JesCoolbaugh # Still at work, but someone just handed me a cold beer so not all that bad :-) # Google Chrome OS - that is interesting http://bit.ly/zrjcL...