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Internet Explorer 6 & CSS2
posted at 1 December 2005
What is scripting in CSS? The idea of scripting in CSS is generally a bad one. It's never going to be accepted into a w3c standard of any kind, it will always remain something Internet Explorer and only Internet Explorer will support. Nonetheless, while IE does not support CSS2 then it does come in useful, if only to provide minimal functionality…
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Skinning RSS feeds with XSL(T)
posted at 16 February 2006
What is XSLT XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations and is the means by which you can "transform" any XML file into something that looks better than the default node tree. If you have looked at my news feed, http://www.chris-holden.com/rss/news.xml you will be able to see what I mean. The RSS feed for this site has been skinned with the look…
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Simple PHP Captcha Image
posted at 5 July 2006
What you need Well before you can start creating images in PHP you need the GD Image Library with the FreeType library 1.x or greater. That means you have all the necessary functions to add text using a .ttf font to a png image. Right now, we're set up, lets continue... Lets Begin To start with, all of the following code is going…
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CSS Hack for IE7
posted at 1 November 2006
As you may know, with the new Internet Explorer 7, the old "star html" hack used to provide styles only to IE fails. This is causing many websites hacks to break and look crap in IE7. If you are looking for a CSS hack to single out IE7 then this is a simple solution.body { background: #fff; }…