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:...

My company has been promising me a web enabled Palm Treo for some time now, and finally that happened last Friday. I got a Palm Treo 700wx with Windows Mobile. I’ve been spending a lot of time getting it up and running, installing apps and synchronizing all of my stuff. The stuff of which I speak includes my favorites. Which consists of an export of my Firefox bookmarks, imported into IE, and then sync-ed into mobile IE. One of my...

(NOTE: Since this post was first written, I have since abandoned Super for the far superior Movavi Video Converter which will do everything Super does, but is much easier to use and obviously much easier to download. It even rips DVDs which Super cannot do. It’s not free like Super, but it’s well worth the cheap $30. Trust me on this one!) Ever get stuck in an endless loop, trying to download video converter, Super? Here’s...

In December I posted an entry called Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards as an improved suggestion over the Flash Satay Method. I’ve recently been playing with objects such as Windows Media and Quick Time where the Satay Method doesn’t even begin to work. As it turns out the Gillay method works for all types of objects (and allow me to re-emphasize that it works without javascript). Before I get too far, let me show an...

Today I spent a few hours trying to debug a web app which uses an autosuggest similar to Google Suggest. I also had an “onBlur” on the text box that will hide the suggestions. Unlike Google Suggest, I could not limit the number of suggestions because it was suggesting names of people in the database and I can’t just list the first 10 or 15 “Johnson” names, I have to list them all. That “Johnson”...