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Fixed: IE7 Button Text Redraw Bug

Mike Badgley — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:00:01 +0000

In a recent article by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, a text redraw bug was brought to light. Internet Explorer 7 has a bug where, when it redraws the text of buttons after scrolling them out and then back into the viewport, (…)

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How to absolute position images in IE8

Mike Badgley — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:15:53 +0000

I came across an strange display bug (?) in IE8 with how it renders inline imagery that is wrapped with an element that has a position of absolute. Here’s a quick example to give you an idea of what I’m (…)

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Quick fix for “Simple Feed List” WordPress plugin

Mike Badgley — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:44:48 +0000

I came across a bug today with a RSS feed plugin we use for one of our WordPress-powered client sites. The bug is with Simple Feed List (v 1.4, by David Artiss), and occurs when the feed link supplied is (…)

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Stopping a YouTube video after closing the overlay it’s in with jQuery Tools

Mike Badgley — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:48:29 +0000

Now there’s a long-winded title for you! Yes, I’m having problems (IE-specific) when closing an overlay that contains a YouTube video – the movie just keeps on playing in the “background”. My current setup was pretty simple – basically just (…)

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Localhost bug with the ShareThis social bookmarking tool

Mike Badgley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:58:26 +0000

Yesterday afternoon, while adding a social bookmarking tool from ShareThis, we came across the following JavaScript error that just wouldn’t go away, even though we were using the same code snippet as is shown on the ShareThis example pages. SHARETHIS (…)

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Server errors with @import from within a style sheet

Mike Badgley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:02:23 +0000

Came across this one yesterday after we launched a new Sitefinity-powered Web site for a client of ours. We were getting all sorts of HTTP Error 400 Bad Request errors, and they all had to do with style sheets. The site (…)

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A small fix for Stu Nicholl’s drop down menu solution for IE6

Mike Badgley — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:56:32 +0000

I’m currently working on an template slice of a micro-site for one of our major clients and came across an annoying bug when attempting to implement Stu Nicholl’s CSS-only drop down menu solution for IE6. For some reason, any menu (…)

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No form? No probem. No submit button? IE6 hangs!

Mike Badgley — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:00:01 +0000

I came across a rather curious IE6 bug today on the RBC Structured Notes Web site we developed here at iStudio. First, a bit of a background. The RBC SN Web site, among other things, displays Notes pages to investors (…)

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