Peng Zhang on November 9th, 2009

The home page of EKS started to throw errors like “Object not Found” in Internet Explorer 6. Upon closer inspection, I suspect that it was because the javascript functions that are being called appear to be still undefined to IE. This occurs only in IE though – Firefox does not have this problem. I still [...]

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Two of my Wordpress-powered members-only sites that run on HTTPS were throwing alerts on every page warning of non-secure content in a SSL secured page. At first, I thought it was caused by the clicky plugin not using the proper tracking code for secure sites. But that theory was confirmed false when the problem persisted [...]

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Peng Zhang on March 23rd, 2009

If the <a> tag does not contain a href attribute, the :hover CSS pseudo class does not work in IE 6. The same <a> tag without the href attribute would work just fine in Firefox. I found out about this after hours of frustration. And thanks to one post out of so many found by [...]

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Peng Zhang on March 20th, 2009

The idea of using CSS Sprites to implement button states can easily go wrong as I found out. And I spent quite some time trying to figure out the problem. Here is what I found:

in the :hover CSS declaration, one has to repeat the background-image attribute even though it is the same as what’s in [...]

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Peng Zhang on March 13th, 2009

I had report that some users are having script errors on a video page. The error message contains something like “An error has occurred in the script on this page. Line: 53, Char: 3, Error: Object required, Code: 0, URL: — yada yada yada”. The error message pops up when the user clicks the browser’s [...]

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