June 2007
Safari CSS/JavaScript Overflow Issues
June 18, 2007, 9:30 PM | 3 Comments
If you’ve seen my portfolio lately you’ll know that it’s currently undergoing some changes, but the latest project to have its URL land there is one that caused me a bit of grief in Safari. What I’ve been able to gather based on more than a few Google searches and discussions with other web professionals is that Safari seems to have a big problem when trying to adjust the overflow property of an element with JavaScript.
Before I go any further though, let me set up the scenario and describe what I had been trying to accomplish. The site’s design concept called for a fixed width and height with a custom-designed scrolling interface. Being the standards-aware developer that I am, I immediately looked at the requirements from a low level perspective. Custom scrolling always requires the use of JavaScript (unless you count IE’s ability to change the colours of its scrollbars… which I don’t), but what should you do when users don’t have JavaScript enabled? Mostly all of the pages on the site would have too much content to fit into the allotted space, so I knew I’d need to use a div and have CSS set its dimensions and overflow property:
Hotel Internet Acce$$
June 2, 2007, 12:09 PM | 10 Comments
I read John Allsopp’s post on the state of Australia’s wi-fi availability today and I couldn’t help but share his pain about how much certain hotels charge for Internet access. My recent experiences have led me to believe that (at least in Canada) the nicer the hotel you stay at, the more they’re going to charge you to use their connections.
Maybe I’m looking at this from the wrong angle, but the way I see it is that if almost every independent coffee shop that does $x amount of business per year can offer free wi-fi while you sip your $5 latté, shouldn’t the good hotels that do $xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx amount of business per year be able to offer at least a free wired in-room Internet connection while you pay your $200/night room fee and $30 for your buffet breakfasts?