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Adobe CS4 Installation Fail

I’ve spent the past 3 days trying to install Adobe CS4 Web Premium on my home Windows XP computer (as the second install of my license at work). I kept getting an error before anything would install telling me something like “the following programs failed to install” (I forget the exact wording). Upon checking the Windows System Logs (Event Viewer -> Application), all it would tell me was “Product: Adobe Anchor...

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Scriptaculous Autocomplete Page Jump Using Arrow Keys

When you use overflow:auto in your css in conjunction with Scriptaculous’ Autocomplete, there is a bug that makes the entire page jump around when you use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate up and down through the suggestion list. This bug normally appears only when the page itself is long enough to require a scroll bar. I managed to come up with a very clean working solution by hacking the controls.js file that comes with...

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IE6 Empty Div spacing issue

It has become fairly common practice to use CSS to fill the contents of an empty DIV tag. For example, I’m working on a project now that uses the following DIV: <div id="main_nav_top_shadow"></div> And with CSS I’m giving that div a fixed height and a repeating background image that creates the appearance of a shadow being cast upward on top of my main nav. #main_nav_top_shadow { height: 6px; background-image:...

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