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Virtual PC for browser checking and more…

Friday, April 4th, 2008

I was a little short of extra computers for browser testing recently (RIP PCs) and so I gave Virtual PC a try. Installing XP on my Vista Installation is dead easy, and admittedly does save me some space on my desk when browser testing. The fact that Microsoft gives it for free is an interesting one….

Rather than explain how it works or give some instructions, I will make it brief and pass on some links I found useful to sites that do the job perfectly well: (more…)

Son of a Son of Suckerfish!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I’ve been using the lovely Son of Suckerfish method to make drop down menus for years now, and it is a very robust way to make them. The one criticism (the word criticism is an overstatement really…) I have is that for every sub-menu level, you need to add to the CSS in order for that to show. Now, it’s not a really big inconvenience… how many sub-levels do you need anyway… but wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to do that? I have made a very small change to the CSS and Javascript that takes care of this problem. (more…)