Internet Explorer to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
This will hopefully kill IE6 and IE7 for good. The latest available IE for Windows XP is IE8 though.
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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...
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 ...
CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine
If I ruled the world, IE would not be used by people. Since that is not the case, we need to put these rules to memory.
How to view Image Metadata on the Linux Command Line with ImageMagick
ImageMagick has a command line tool called identify which can read image metadata:
>identify -verbose DSC00136.JPG
Image: DSC00136.JPG
Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
Class: DirectClass
Geometry: 5472x3648+...
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....
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 = ...
How to start Terminator with split screens and custom commands running
Starting Terminator with split screens is quite simple: Just store a layout and start Terminator with the --layout <your layout> option.
However, if you want to run custom commands in your terminals, you need to do some work to keep these termi...
Minimal JavaScript function to detect version of Internet Explorer or Edge
If possible your code should detect features, not browsers. But sometimes you just need to sniff the browser. And when you do, you're proba...
Getting non-Aero toolbars for Thunderbird 5 on Windows 7
Thunderbird 5 brings a custom chrome on Windows Vista/7 that uses translucent Aero decorations on toolbars and menubars. Here is how to restore solid backgrounds if you don't like it.
Put the following into chrome\userChrome.css in your Thunder...