Fixing overbold text on Mac web browsers
Over the past few years I have regularly run into an issue with web browsers on Mac OS X rendering fonts too bold. This can sometimes give the appearance of text appearing at a complete font-weight above what it should be. I have, however, stumbled upon the solution.
And it's been a while...
I very nearly quoted a Staind track then, I am not proud of that. Anyway, it’s been a stupidly long time since I last bothered to blog about something. No particular reason for this; just got caught up with life, work etc and forgot about it. The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that the blog is now not on wordpress.com but is part of my new website. I’ve shifted over to the jekyll platform, this basically builds a static HTML blog out of markdown files.
Local fallback jQuery (with a twist of Joomla)
It’s been a while since the last post, but here were go again anyway! Today there was a small problem with OpenDNS whereby anyone using their service would find that Google’s content delivery network was blocked as a phishing site.
Oh well you say, but Google’s CDN hosts jQuery and have a look at how many sites use this hosted version….
XML dateTime and PHP
Today I had to grapple with a Sage based web service and I discovered that XML dateTime formats can give you a large headache
The height(); of bad manners
Hello there, to quote Alec Guiness, today i’ve found yet another jQuery inconsistency that needs to be made note of! It would seem that certain version of IE (looks like 8 and 9) along with Opera don’t officially support the jQuery height() function.