Archive for the “annoying things” category
Bug in ckeditor version 3.6.1 revision 7072
by Luke Rodgers on July 15, 2011
Using ckeditor and jquery adapter, and with a textarea that is initialized as a ckeditor instance more than once, once with content, once without, you may encounter a bug in Firefox, p is null.
Go to line 126, change
p.setHtml(”);
to
if (p) { (…)
To LibraryThing widget users:
by Luke Rodgers on February 15, 2009
Librarything.com went down, leading to issues for users of my LibraryThing widget.
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Improve your pagination’s usability
by Luke Rodgers on February 15, 2009
In short: pad your a elements liberally
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IE6 CSS hacks with Wordpress.com
by Luke Rodgers on February 12, 2009
A trick for tweaking the CSS of your Wordpress.com blog for IE6.
Thank god Rogers is continuing to innovate
by Luke Rodgers on January 22, 2009
Apparently for Rogers, innovation means “making a few TV shows and movie previews available for free, and claiming that our Internet is the fastest in Canada without providing any support for the claim, and raising a bunch of our prices.” (…)
Scam ads on Facebook
by Luke Rodgers on January 21, 2009
Perhaps I’m the only one to whom this would be unexpected, but I was surprised to notice blatant scam ads on Facebook today. Maybe they’re not a recent addition but I just noticed them today for the first time. I (…)
The #1 reason not to use Joomla
by Luke Rodgers on November 15, 2008
The most annoying issue with Joomla!, despite the admirable efforts of many people involved with the project, is its tendancy to output crappy HTML. Even still, at least one of the default themes uses tables for layout, and last time (…)
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Fido.ca’s usability sin
by Luke Rodgers on September 19, 2008
There are few things that universally qualify as web design FAILs. The esteemed Jakob Nielsen has a list of Top-10 Web Design Mistakes from 1999 which, in web years, is a long time. Long enough that you think people would (…)
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