Wednesday, December 27, 2006

innerHTML

I have few troubles about innerHTML

1, In Firefox, it can't copy the INPUT text object's value attribute and SELECT object's selectedIndex property.

2, Style sheet won't be copied from one window to the other window.

3, In the TEXTAREA, I have one space and one non-break space(nbsp). Then, I assign this TEXTAREA value into an object innerHTML, but one space left.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Dynamic HTML creation

I would like to compare the performance of dynamic content creation between document.createElement and innerHTML, because I were looking how to improve the very large table rendering.

I found an very interesting article :

JavaScript optimization: Adding DOM elements to document

This is definitely worth to give it a trial. I am somehow to prefer to use innHTML, because it's easy to trace down the code. But, sometimes, DOM manipulation can't be avoided.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Java SE Performance at a Glance


What is SUN's promotion for Java SE6?

This page http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/performance.jsp is so old. Today, I see last article posted December 2005 and only Java 5 mentioned in this page.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

This Much I Know - » inline-block in FireFox

This Much I Know - » inline-block in FireFox

Just learn Firefox display style -moz-inline-box and -moz-inline-block.

What's the difference?
For two nesting DIVs.

When outside DIV is "-moz-inline-box" and inside DIV is "-moz-inlineblock", then
"-moz-inline-box" allows to expand the width if content length overflow.

When both outside and inside DIV are "-moz-inline-block", then
content will be overlay if inside DIV content length overflow.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Charging Batteries without Wires

New MIT research reveals a way to send wireless energy to mobile phones and laptops.

In page 2,
Using the electric field would pose a health risk, and would be better employed in applications in which people aren't nearby, he says. Conversely, using the magnetic field would be much safer and could be implemented just as easily. "I can't think of any reason to worry [about health concerns]," he says, "but people will."

As technology improvement, everything are getting handy, but doesn't mean people are getting healthy. Got to make some search how electric field and magnetic field affect to people health.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

jEditCvs

Looking at a more completed cvs plugin for jEdit.
Should be as polish as eclipse.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

New Motor Trend

The new Motor Trend web site is much better than before. It's more like an enterprise now. Previously, the page was design for small screen and had no enough space for padding.

Friday, November 03, 2006

window.console

I tried to control BUTTON size with relative size, like

BUTTON {display:block; text-align:center; width:2em; height:1.5em; padding:0;}

However, Safari give me a bigger size.
So, I tried to size down from javascript.

if (window.console) { //safari
document.writeln("<style type="'text/css'">");
document.writeln(".ccActions BUTTON {width:1.5em; height:1em;margin-bottom:2px;}");
document.writeln("</style>");

}


Unfortunately, my Firefox 2 understood window.console. I
was surprised, but I didn't see it in the mozilla DOM reference.

But, I didn't have this problem in my new laptop's FF2. So, I looked at my extension. I disabled Firebug, then I found my script was good again.

So to be safe, I change my Safari condition as
if (window.console && window.console.log) //safari

Another Notes :
When I tried
if (window.console && window.console.log()) //safari
Safari crashed. Despite Safari is rarely crashed, but I still don't like.

Resume my blog

Previously, I found blogger only kept my one year blog. I was upset and stop to post.

Now, I see my early post shown again. It's time to resume.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

National Sex Offender Registry

National Sex Offender Registry

Just checked it and saw a very weird browser behavior. I used Firefox to check offender. When I clicked each square, but an IE modal window popped up.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Introducing Opera 9 Beta

Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Introducing Opera 9 Beta

Play new Opera 9 for a day. There are a lot of imporvement in the style sheet, but I still see few problem.

The interesting thing is when I visit youtube. Usually in Firefox, I click "Home" tab to go to the front page and I can see "Recently Viewed" differently each time. But, when I try Opera 9, those recently viewed thumbnails are never change.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Live Journal

In the front page of LiveJournal, I see "journals and communities created since 1999". They must be the ancestor of blogs. I don't see good index and listing in the front page, so I am wondering how do they get their post public.

There is an interesting statistics. I guess teen like web.

Age Distribution

The following shows the age distribution of LiveJournal users:

1318111
1486152
15208933
16343292
17402602
18415630
19407798
20374305
21306239
22241646
23196216
24154057
25128022
26100316
2774239
2859702
2949253
3040438
3134715
3227681
3324569
3421020
3520230
3618281
3714073
3811175
3910222
408597
417747
426677
435884
445474
455978
465314
474245
483569
493335
503312
512978
522508
532240
541882
551959

Monday, April 17, 2006

FIELDSET/TABLE Padding

Another headache about FIELDSET. I have two FIELDSETs side by side ( left and right).
The left side is for Work Address and right side is for Home Address. They are almost same except Organization and Position in Work Address.

I try to make there two FIELDSETs in the same height with style sheet height:30em, but Firefox gets more space in the bottom.

Finally, I find that IE will have margin on the top/bottom of each INPUT text field. So far, I have no luck to remove the extra margin on the top/bottom of text field.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

CLC-4-TTS and Fire Vox

I am looking a screen reader for Firefox itself for a while. Few days ago, I heard Fire Vox from Frank Hecker.

I tried to install it few times, but still no luck. I hope a copy of Fire Vox hosted in mozilla extension.

Monday, April 03, 2006

Safari contentEditable

Interested move -- Safari is going to use contentEditable behavior to do textfield. It's definite to benefit css. My immediate question : does this apply to textarea, too? And, is this really compatible since people were talking about range issue in the contentEditable?

Actually, my major concern is when scrollbar will be always displayed correctly in the textarea.
Right now, if textarea is small, the up/down arrow won't display.

Safari always claim great feature. When I examine it, it's kind of crippled.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Eye on rival YouTube, Atom overhauls video site

Just Check AtomFiles web site. They don't have the major feature, random select films in the front page, like YouTube. Sometimes, I just want to browser it, but not any particular topics.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Suggestion to Google toolbar

So far, I can't a spell check extension for Firefox in windows. The spell check Google toolbar may be helpful. But, I think, it can be more helpful if the spell check function is the context menu. Some of my web forms are on the pop up window.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Flash and Flex

Whatcott said the Adobe platform supports things that AJAX does not support, such as programmable audio, video, vector graphics, synchronous publish/subscribe data connectivity, offline data storage and cross-domain data access.

Constantly, I use iframe to add other domain content; however, there is always security issues and can't expand iframe to content max size. Just read an article from eweek and put a quote on the top. Is flash my solution?

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Safari Compatibility Hit List

The WebKit Open Source Project post compatibility hit list today. Usually, using Safari to look at a pure thml page is great -- nice and neat font. But, when looking at more complicated pages, safari is like the secondary browser. It lacks HTML editor and a lot of JavaScript issues.

Besides standard compatibility compliance, I hope Safari can catch up usability.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Acrobat User Community

My first throught about www.acrobatusrs.com is message board. People can post question to get help from web community. But, when I vist the site. I see blogs and some other learngin materials, not message board. Anyway, this is great move for adobe.

I have mixed feeling about PDF file. I would like people to send me PDF file instead of MS word file, but in the web, I will try not to open any PDF file. I think Acrobat reader is a monster as many reasons.

Read more at www.acrobatusers.com/

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22)

Sestion 508

(n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.

There is a grey area on checkbox and radio button. Where do I put LABEL.

For example :

Accessories :

[ ] Printer

[ ] Monitor

[ ] Keyboard

[ ] Mouse

I believe each checkbox need to associate a LABEL with text on the right side.

Read more at www.access-board.gov/se...

Google unveils Web page creator | CNET News.com

Like to see how google doing the web pages. Unfortuately, the system said a little hiccup at this moment.

Read more at news.com.com/Google+unv...

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

MAC OX 10.4.5

Just upgraded from 10.4.4. I still couldn't get IE 5 work. I understood IE was unsupported on MAC. I could open up IE, but "Finder" came up if I clicked any links on IE. That's kind of weird.

I also installed Camino yesterday, so far so good.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Safari and Textarea

Safari try to take some advantage native UI; unfortunately, the TEXTAREA is not quite right.

1, The scrollbar up/down arrow can't be shown, if rows less than 4.
2, Try to control textarea height, but scrollHeight is fixed number and never be changed.

Open Source Flash - osflash

Push down binary object at runtime -- it's a dream idea for web developer. It's going to be lightweight and fast.

However, Flash is really another world for me. Get the idea, but don't know how to start a sample.

Read more at www.osflash.org/

Monday, February 06, 2006

Linux users say OS needs touch-up with Photoshop | CNET News.com

GIMP is my favorite graph tool. It's free. Since I am not professional graph designer, I only use some very simple tools on windows XP. And, it works for me.

Read more at news.com.com/Linux+user...

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

JavaScript Graphics Development

The other day, I were thinking how to draw fourier wave by using javascript canvas. At that moment, my assumption was that as long as I could figure out how to draw sin and cos, then I could do that.

Now, I just looked at the site http://davidbetz.net/graphics/ how to draw sin and cos. To draw a wave, it draw pixel by pixel. In this case, I need to work on my math how to calculate intrgral, then draw a fourier wave.

Read more at davidbetz.net/graphics/

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

9X Media - FAQs

It's amazing -- LCD display wall and made in the USA. I am wondering USA actually produce LCD panel.

My guess wall street must have a lot of LCD walls.










Read more at www.9xmedia.com/pages-B...

SeaMonkey Releases

&nbsp;I just downloaded a zip version of SeaMonkey and opened it, but it didn't seem to accept cookies. By the way, that interface is just too old.

Read more at www.mozilla.org/project...

Thursday, January 26, 2006

OSNews.com

People reporting 10.4.4 were buggy.

No wonder the other day I opened IE on MAC, none of links counld be clicked. At that moment, I thought Apple really forced people to use Safari.

Read more at www.osnews.com/comment....

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The W3C Markup Validation Service

Today, first time I put my web page into w3c validator. Not to mention countless errors.

But, I have to two fundamental errors :

1, In web page I have

meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

, but apache send out utf-8 encoding in the responding header.

2, Unencoded ampersands in URL

Link like href="q?p=welcome&id=" was failed.



According to http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp


, it should be href="q?p=welcome&amp;amp;id="



Read more at validator.w3.org/

brandchannel.com | brandchannel Readers Choice Awards 2005 | Brands Rankings, Research, Lists | branding and marketing portal | brand | brands | branding

I probably watch not much TV. I know craigslist classification and go to Whole Foods a lot, but I just don't know Lance Armstrong.

Read more at www.brandchannel.com/st...

IEBlog : For the SELECT few...

First, I am wondering how many peoples are working on IE?

As to SELECT (MS combobox), it's most buggy object in IE.

Now, they have windowless fix. The other problems I have :

1, OPTION style sheet support.

2, If a LABEL object is associated with SELECT. Click this LABEL, then the related SELECT get focus. Unfortunately, the SELECT always select the first item.

3, Use style sheet to set a small size to SELECT object. When drop down pop up, the longer item OPTIONs will be cut off.

Read more at blogs.msdn.com/ie/archi...

Thursday, January 19, 2006

printfire()

Just like inline output from Firebug extension.

printfire("hellow world");

It's much easier than standout output "dump".So, no more alert(), no more dump() for debuging.

There is no way to use IE as my default development environment.

Read more at www.joehewitt.com/softw...

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:FireBug - All Releases

It's much better than console2. Nice UI. My favorite part is js error indicator. This is very useful. I don't need to keep my js error console opening.

Read more at addons.mozilla.org/exte...

Bug 184968 - Implement Sidebar tab similar to "Page Holder" function in Mac IE 5

I like IE5/MAC showing tool tab on the left side of window. AOL Explorer has this kind of feature, too.

jEdit is my favorite java editor. It has this kind of feature. I can hide all add on tools on the side panel and reserver the main window for the file I am working on.

Read more at bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh...

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Surfin’ Safari » Blog Archive » Introducing the Web Inspector

It's much better and useful than Firefox DOM Inspector.

Web inspector

Read more at webkit.opendarwin.org/b...

Animation giraffe again.

Can you move?

Giraffe


I heard once giraffle's head hit the ground. That's over.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Apache HTTP Server Project

Apache released 2.2 in the early of December 2005. The feature list is excited. It has Tomecat load balancer.

But, So far, I don't see window binary distribution. By the way, what's is "Apache Portable Runtime (APR)"? It's sort of virtual Machine like Java.

Read more at www.apache.org/dist/htt...

Friday, January 13, 2006

Music stops for Mac Windows Media Player | CNET News.com

Great news for mac. MS always offer their softwar into other platform differently, not full features. By the way, it's not for sale. It's better to kill it.

Read more at news.com.com/Music+stop...

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Bug 160162 - MARQUEE loop property not supported

This other day, I tried to implement alert message (like system tray -- show, then come down to hide) with marquee tag. Sooner, I realized Firefox didn't support loop attribute.

Read more at bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh...

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Firefox innerText

I just implemented a method to get innerText. It's for a complicated document.


function ccGetMZInnerText(element) {

var innerText = "";
if (element.hasChildNodes()) {

var displayType = window.getComputedStyle(element,null).getPropertyValue("display");
if (displayType != null && displayType!="none") {
for (var i = 0; i <>
if (element.tagName=="P") innerText = "\n" + innerText;
innerText = innerText + ccGetMZInnerText( element.childNodes[i] );
}
if (displayType!="inline") innerText = innerText + "\n";
}

} else {

if ( element.nodeType == 3 ) {// text
innerText = innerText + ccTextCorrection(element.nodeValue);
} else if (element.nodeType == 1) { //object
var displayType = window.getComputedStyle(element,null).getPropertyValue("display");
if (displayType == null || displayType=="none") {
} else if (displayType=="inline") {
innerText = innerText + ccTextCorrection(element.textContent);
if (element.tagName=="BR") innerText = innerText + "\n";
} else {
innerText = innerText + ccTextCorrection(element.textContent) + "\n";
}
}

}

return innerText;

}

function ccTextCorrection(fooString) { //replace to blank, and remove line break.
return fooString.replace(/ /g, " ").replace(/\n/g, "").replace(/\r/g, "");
}

Web Applications 1.0 - ping

Ping -- it's interested attribute for hyper link (A). Firefox just have it. Is this good for tracking system? Got to find a good use case.

Read more at whatwg.org/specs/web-ap...

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Surfin’ Safari » Blog Archive » WebKit is now in Subversion

Recently, just migrated from VSS to CVS, and felt a lot of pain.&nbsp; So far I got WinCVS the best, but the interface was still hard to use.&nbsp; I did't see a way to get server log automatically. Like editor, I had to select a file to see it. I would like to see every file editor when folder was changed.

Anyway, people is migrated to subversion, not sure what's the advantage.

Read more at webkit.opendarwin.org/b...

Friday, January 06, 2006

FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View Entry - How do I emulate innerText in mozilla/gecko/NS6+ ?

I through this was fast way to do innerText for Firefox. Unfortunately, this was only good for a paragraph. It did not skip STYLE, SCRIPT tags. DIV need a line break. There are lot more comlicated to handle line break.

Read more at www.faqts.com/knowledge...

Blogger: Create your Blog Now -- FREE

I have Blogger Web Comments extension installed in my Firefox. Most of time is disable, but I will enable it to see others' comments. I was just curious how google know those comments from. As I played more, I believed those comments were from blog search result. Now, my question how google decide a blog page?

Read more at www.blogger.com/start