http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:18:34 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001022.html While experimenting with LDAP connections in Safari, errors like this one started popping up: "The website _____ requires a client certificate" A dialog would open, listing some old MobileMe certificates. Apparently if any old, expired or corrupt MobileMe certificates are still lodged in the Keychain, you may get this error sometimes. MobileMe has been disabled and signed out on my... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000966.html There have been a few interface updates to Amazon's Kindle page since I last wrote about it, but there remains a strange lack of comprehension on the part of Amazon, that people might actually want to use their highlights. There is still no obvious way to export the data. For those with Macs, I've come up with a workaround, and... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000960.html Lately it seems that apps tend to crash a lot on my first-generation iPad. Safari is one of the biggest offenders, and it appears the problem is at least partly from lack of free memory. If Safari starts crashing everytime you open it, it sometimes helps to close all apps in the multitasking bar.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000939.html Since the last update of Safari, I've been seeing way too much of this error: "Webpages are not responding. To visit the selected webpage, all webpages in other tabs and windows must be force reloaded. Do you want to visit this page?" Once this error shows up, usually several windows will start reloading on their own. The error seems to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000892.html I find the new debugging tools in Safari almost as useful as Firebug. There's a Web Inspector that lets you see exactly how the HTML is formed, a Javascript console that lets you see errors and debugging messages written into the code and much more. But to use them you must enable the Debug menu in Safari. Open Safari preferences... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000805.html I have an old Mac notebook that I use for surfing the internet or to store and upload photos while on trips. While travelling around this summer I found that it would no longer connect to any hotel's wifi network. The first night I assumed it was something about the hotel's network, but when it happened in a different hotel... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000763.html The z-index bug in actionAlthough Internet Explorer 8 has been widely adopted, IE 7 is still the browser in use at my office, so all new projects must be compatible with it. Even though IE7 was already obsolete when we adopted it, it was a wonderful change from IE 6, because of the reduced need for CSS and javascript hacks,... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000756.html I've been using DimDim lately to share screens and host impromptu meetings. I recently hosted a three-person meeting for the purpose of screensharing an application we were all working on. Previous meetings of this type had gone well, but this time we kept having problems with "Another meeting room running" errors which prevented screensharing.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000484.html If Safari gives you the following error "Client certificate rejected" and shows you a white page, try this. Open Keychain Access, find the expired certificate and delete it. There may be two certificates with the same title. Sometimes Safari finds the first certificate that matches the name, even if it is expired. Thanks to Albert Willis for the answer to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000469.html A rare but irritating problem I've had with Safari for a couple of years now is its habit of suddenly no longer responding to mouse clicks. It simply stops dead: you can't click links, type in textareas, or even use the scrollbar. Strangely, it will still respond to the keyboard, but as far as I know, there is no keyboard... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000436.html I've seen a lot of talk on the web about the slowness of Safari 3 on Windows. Am I the only one who finds Safari 3 on OS X slow also? I have a 2 GHz PPC G5 iMac, not a great computer but respectable, but I guess it cannot handle the new Safari. This sluggishness is starting to make... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000346.html In setting up some sliding door tabs, I found there are situations when Safari will not show the background of an element if the background positioning is set to "top". This example shows how it SHOULD look. There are rounded corner backgrounds in each tab. Not that the background styles for the #tabBar li a and #tabBar li elements does... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000292.html Have you ever used the onChange event to submit a form? onChange="document.form1.submit();" If you are creating a form that submits as soon as a change is made to any selection, make sure you remove the "submit" button first, or you will get a javascript error similar to: "document.form1.submit is not a function" This is because it is confusing the "submit"... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000287.html After upgrading to 10.4.7 I started noticing frequent slowdowns in Safari. The "Spinning Rainbow Cursor of Death" was becoming a constant occurence. There are plenty of recommendations about how to fix this common issue. Delete the contents of the icons folder in ~/Library/Safari replace the syndication agent at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Syndication.framework with a copy from a Mac OS X system that does... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000232.html A small difference in the way IE and other browsers interpret table attributes: Browsers other than IE will show padding if it is applied to the table tag. table { padding:6px; } IE does not recognize table padding, and will show contained elements as flush with the edges of the table. For example: This is the way Safari 2.0 renders...