Solving technology problems, one at a time
The other day I tried to load a URL in Safari that has worked dozens of times before, but now Safari prevented it from opening entirely, instead presenting this dialog: The website “[my requested URL]”
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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 Mac for years, but the fact that the certs were still there caused the problem.
Continue readingA 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 readingWhen building web applications I often use display styles to show or hide divs or table rows as needed. On one project, I found that the “colspan” property did not seem to work in Firefox or Safari. This was because I had incorrectly used display:block to style the TR element, instead of display:table-row. A demo is below, and the code follows.
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)My home page has a lot of columns – the less important ones are usually beyond the right edge of the page in a small screen. In Safari and Firefox that creates an unpleasant page
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