Browser Hacks: CSS Rules to Target Specific Browsers And Versions
The linked site lists a wealth of CSS hacks that let you apply styles to just that one browser. You should be using this mostly for fixing browser issues and not give up on creating solid styles.
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Customize tokenization of the MySQL FULLTEXT parser
The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.
Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...
Using Firebug Lite to inspect HTML in Internet Explorer and other browsers
You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.
Though all major browsers offer inspection tools you may like the Firebug style. Also, for me this is a lot better than the IE8 develop...
Large CSS box shadows can bring browsers to a crawl
Browser rendering engines are very slow at rendering large box shadows. I had a situation where a complex layout with fixed elements and large shadows slowed Firefox down to 2 frames/second for scrolling and DOM manipulation.
Some advice:
- Be a...
How to detect touch-capable browsers
The easiest way to detect touch-capable browsers is to check for the presence of touch events. It is no 100% solution, but has by far the best cost-benefit ratio. (Know that this does not detect touch devices, but browsers.)
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When sessions, cookies and Clearance tokens expire and how to change it
Expiration of Rails sessions
By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window.
To change this edit your config/initializers/session_store.rb like this:
ActionController::Base.session = ...
Invoices: How to properly round and calculate totals
While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals, it actually involves a lot of rules and caveats. It is very easy to create invoices where numbers don't add up and a few cents are missing....
Video transcoding: Web and native playback overview (April 2020)
Intro
Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a <video> tag to your source code and it just works. Most of the time.
The thing is: Both the **operating system and Browser of your client must support the container ...
How to use CSS to rotate text by 90° in IE8 (and modern IEs)
If you want to rotate text, you can use CSS transforms in somewhat modern browsers to rotate the container element.
However, if you need to support IE8, transform is unavailable (if need only IE9 support, ignore the following and use `-ms-transf...
Always convert and strip user-provided images to sRGB
Debugging image color profiles is hard. You can't trust your eyes in this matter, as the image rendering depends on multiple factors. At least the operation system, browser or image viewer software and monitor influence the resulting image colors ...
Passive event listeners may speed up your scroll and touch events
Scroll and touch event listeners tend to be computationally expensive as they are triggered very often. Every time the event is fired, the browser needs to wait for the event to be processed before continuing - the event could prevent the default ...