If a web page with drop-down menus is not displaying correctly on iPad or iPhone with the Safari web browser the cause may be that the browser on these devices may not support the :after pseudo-class.
A common CSS construct that is in use is the :after pseudo-class. It's a rather useful construct to prevent issues where you might have a dropdown menu but elements below the dropdown menu end up pushed to the side or text is wrapping around when they it should not.
A new word has come into my world today. "Pedants".
Pedants are those who champion correctness over originality when it comes to language to the point of excess. This is often a problem because its difficult to be analytical, and pedantic, and to be creative at the same time.
In this video Stephen Fry expresses in his wonderful British way what I and probably many of us had wished to say for a very long time but did not have the words.
This morning I ran into some trouble where I had a flash player the client wanted to play music on some pages but be invisible except on one particular page where he wanted it to show.
Now flash players can be a bit picky. If any of its containers is or becomes hidden hidden such as having it's display attribute set to none, the player will stop playing or never start. They insist on being visible, even if too small to see.
About 15 years ago, I wrote a program called Chirper. It would cause each key to emit a particular musical note through the PC speaker when pressed. It was *intended* for blind users - particularly a fellow student that was blind, who showed me the major problem with the software is it would voice out all the key presses and so it's maximum working speed was a dumb crawl of 20wpm. My answer to this was the Chirper. Once a user learned the sound of the keys they could recognize them by the sound and it was not limited by the speed of the speech processor.
Recently there was a discussion on www.slashdot.net about uses for empty hard drive bays which reminded me of a particularly disturbed iguana I used to have years ago.
This thing was a "Gift" from someone else. Some gift I tell you. It would scratch around at night, keeping me awake so I thought well I'll let it out. What a mistake that was! It decided my bed was his territory not mine and I found out when I put my head down on my pillow and well I won't go into any further details. I'll just leave it to your imagination.
One of the mysteries of the human species is that of missing socks. Surely when you put an even number of socks into a dryer and come out with an odd number of socks it goes without saying that something is a foot here!
Current theory is that socks are cannibalistic. Left socks eat right socks and vice versa. The tumbling motion tends to get them excited and they nip at each other. You didn't think your heel was that sharp did you?
