HTML, CSS & JavaScript

Firefox is my favorite web browser. I’d love if the guys at Mozilla would start optimizing it for speed so it will load and run faster like Chrome or Safari. Although, admittedly slower to load than the other two web browsers, I still love Firefox because of the rich plugin apps available on the Firefox browser.

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I’ve read about Digg’s plan to stop supporting the Internet Explorer version 6 web browser via TechCrunch. I just totally agree with the plan. I mean IE6 is just too antiquated. What’s an even more valid reason to dump it is that it’s such a security risk to continue using it.

I think that any experienced web developer would tell you what I’m talking about. Plus to developers it’s been a nightmare to try and support such a web browser that doesn’t even come close to following web standards. Everyone who understands what I’m talking about and has a blog should really start campaigning for these IE6 users to change their web browser by posting about it on their blog.

If you can’t upgrade your Internet Explorer to a new version because you’re using an old operating system. I suggest you do yourself a favor and get Mozilla’s Firefox instead.

I have just finished up on updating my Javamidlet.com web site. It’s been almost a year since I’ve made any changes to the site’s wordpress theme. The theme I use on Javamidlet was one of my early themes when I was still learning how to make them in WordPress.

I’ve learned quite a few from the exercise and one of them was — it’s really quite a challenge to have a web site theme that works on majority of the web browsers — Firefox, IE7 and IE6. Working with Firefox (both for Linux and Windows) and MSIE 7 was easy but you’ve got to give credit to IE6 for being such a creation! It’s a good thing that less and less people are using IE6.

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Looking for the simplest way to check if a Javascript variable / object is an array? Here’s a simple way on how to check for an Array variable in javascript:

function isArray(variable) {
if (variable.constructor == Array)
return true;
else
return false;
}

or better yet, just do this:

function isArray(variable) {
return (variable.constructor == Array);
}

Yesterday, I found myself in a situation, wherein I wanted to provide a mailto link that will not only include a subject but also an initial body when a web site visitor clicks on the link.

I was quite sure that it was possible but couldn’t remember how to do it so after some googling, I found a “MailTo Syntax” page that describes how it’s done.

In the message body you can actually include html links that a person can email to friends. You’ll just have to url encode the text so that it will be properly included in the email message body when the user clicks on the link. If you need a url encoder, you can use this online form.

Using round cornered borders or nifty corners on your web pages instead of those pointed, sharp cornered borders are always a welcome addition when creating your web site. I’m not much of a graphics guru or a top-notch web designer so I went on a quest to find out how to create borders using nifty corners.

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While creating the theme/template for Code Stuff, I began to search the Net for some HTML test data that I can use to be able to check the CSS stylesheet for the Code Stuff WordPress theme. I wanted to make sure that the CSS file will contain the standard or at least the minimum style tags for the WordPress theme.

A couple of Googling on the Net has brought me to the Lorelle site at wordpress.com. Seeing that this is what I needed, I decided to make a copy of the HTML code provided by the site here to be able to check any changes that I make on the Code Stuff stylesheet.

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