Solving technology problems, one at a time
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
Continue readingI’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
Continue readingIn 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
Continue readingHave 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
Continue readingAfter 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.
with a copy from a Mac OS X system that does not have problems
(subscription required)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 the code below. Note the 6 pixel white padding area between the edge of the table and the edge of the tr.
For a short time now, Safari has been showing blank pages on certain sites, most notably my OWN sites. This was extremely irritating. I am not certain if it is related to the recent security
Continue readingIt’s not obvious when using Safari on the Mac how to get the Java console to start up. Go to Applications/Utilities/Java/Java 1.x/x Plugin Settings and turn it on there. Then it will show up whenever
Continue readingThe code for the 3 column layout for this blog is partly borrowed from smokinggun.com and iht.com. However now I see why they don’t put images and form elements in the article body itself!
The images and text area fields make it difficult for the script to calculate a good 1/3 column height to correctly position the duplicate columns vertically, and I’m having problems with Safari not showing the contents of text-area form fields within the article layers. I believe it has something to do with the fact that Safari uses the Apple web widgets instead of standard form widgets. Perhaps the text is on another layer that I’m not aware of.
It will take some time to work out a solution, so bear with me. I’m going to make the code in relevant pages accessible as soon as possible.
Continue readingWhile attempting to build a cross-browser compatible embedded Windows Media Player web interface, I noticed that Safari began to give errors on browsing to any embedded video player. After weeks of suffering through thinking it
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