Monthly Archives: October 2008

jQuery Bug: IE reports incorrect $.browser.version

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 19, 2008
I’ve witnessed installations of IE where the navigator.userAgent reported both MSIE 6.0 and MSIE 7.0 in the same string, when Internet Explorer 7 is the one that’s really installed. Turns out, this is problematic for jQuery version 1.2.6, as it parses the double version userAgent as Internet Explorer 6, which may cause problems with [...]
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Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images.

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 18, 2008
A few months ago, I took on a new role at Union Pacific Railroad as the lead architect for an internal project: a Union Pacific UI Library used in our IT department on all new web-based projects. Based on jQuery, it is similar to a project like jQuery UI, but it has a few [...]
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Relative URLs including the Domain

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 16, 2008
Just a neat little trick I saw while browsing the source code of Google Calendar. In some of their CSS files, they link to background-images using URLs that include everything but the protocol, which is something I hadn't seen before.
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ALARMd is a Google Code Project

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 8, 2008
I received a request this week to participate in development of the internet alarm clock I developed awhile back called ALARMd. It has gone through two major revisions, and my interest in contributing additional source code to the project is waning. I’ve got other projects. So, I’ve decided to publish it to [...]
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