MonochroMe

What I have learnt today I was taught a while ago.  “True” and “False” are just words, like “Fred” and “Susan” or symbols like “⊤” and “⊥”.  Now don’t get me started on why Susan is false, that’s a whole other rant.  But yes, in Javascript, a 0 is false, and a 1 is true.  But a “0″ is true.  Nice bug that one

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Originally uploaded by charleebrown.

I had my review today, and I’ve passed my probation This means they have to give me more than a week’s notice to sack me for starters. It also meant I got some feedback on my work. And none of it made me cry!

I really love working here. I really do. Aside from the business we’re in, it’s pretty close to fantastic. There are some great characters and exceptional minds, and that’s the kinda place I love. I was really fearful that my work wasn’t up to scratch, and frankly, it’s gonna take a while for it to be up to the standards of most of them (they’re great coders), but it’s obviously not completely useless so some people, who will remain nameless [cough]His Lordship[\cough]weren’t quite on the mark when they urged me to consider alternative career paths.

So drinkies on Thurs to celebrate, Holiday at the weekend, Birthday on Tues and party next week, rock on!

How cool is this?

I’d really really really like one of these please

If you have something like this:

[a xhref=”http://www.charleebrown.co.uk/blog/#” mce_href=”http://www.charleebrown.co.uk/blog/#” onclick=”doSomething();”]Click me[/a]

where doSomething() does something to the stuff within thetags, IE 6 (possibly others to) will thrown an Unknown Runtime Error. So put it in a tag with a afterwards, and all will be fine in both browsers. But this will only happen in static html. If you dynamically generate some html with [a onclick=”doSomething();”]ClickMe[/a]

it’ll work just fine.

IE’s just fabulous isn’t it

Argh!

Originally uploaded by charleebrown.

We’re talking those who can help me with an issue in :
Internet Exploder: Dynamic content: generated using JS and the DOM: Tables: table Captions.

Specifically, statically created tables of the form
<table>
<caption> “blah” <caption/>
<colgroup/>
<thead/>
<tbody/>
<tfoot/>
<table/>

show the caption correctly at the top of the table.
dynamically created tables of the same form incorrectly show it at the bottom.

This is only in Internet Explorer, it works perfectly in Firefox.

I really really really need any help/suggestions/workarounds you can give me.

[Update 27th Feb 2007: 19:56]

I solved it! The caption was nested in a table, nested in a div, which had a class tag, which in the css had a “vertical-align:bottom” GRRR. Thanks Ivan

!important is indeed thus

I spent a good 4-5 hrs trying to work out WHY THE HELL THE TAB TEXT WOULDN’T GO WHITE!!! before I found that out.