Tag: bug
IE7 only: float bug on elements with italic, background properties
Setting font-style:italic in your CSS for elements in the vicinity of a floated element can actually trigger a float bug in Internet Explorer 7.
This is only a problem, so far as I can see, when you’re using backgrounds on the unfloated element(s), because thr background image or colour will overrun your floated element.
Want to …
Dreamweaver CS3 crashes and won’t start up again
Hey kids, this is definitely one of the weirdest bugs I have ever clapped eyes on.
Not for the first time, I was happily authoring CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 crashed. Turns out, it doesn’t have to be specifically CSS, but that was my situation anyway.
The crash
It’s all too familiar: this is DW after all, and those …
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The Good Shepherd
Director: Robert De Niro United States, 2006 Matt Damon’s got a tough job here. On the one hand he needs to play the absolute stoic, for whom life-changing decisions are met wordlessly with little …
- Originally published: 16 Oct 2007 in Film
Culture and Columbus in the Canaries
We took a short but very welcome trip to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the third week of November. Las Palmas is Spain’s seventh largest city and the administrative capital of …
- Originally published: 3 Dec 2007 in Europe
Köln and Bonn
For my thirtieth birthday, J had organised a surprise trip. This time, unlike so many others, she managed to keep the details a perfect secret for three whole months. Köln (Cologne) When work started …
- Originally published: 30 Jun 2009 in Europe
Looking for Richard
Director: Al Pacino United States, 1992 “A four hundred year old work in progress” goes the tagline to Pacino’s first feature as director and the film itself took four years and six editors to …
- Originally published: 15 Jan 2007 in Film
Borat
Director: Larry Charles United States, 2006 The ingenuous Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev has been known to us since Sacha Baron Cohen’s earliest appearances on The 11 O’Clock Show. However, capitalising on the briefest gasp …
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
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