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Comment on Dear IE6: Please Cache my Images. by Über 20 Tipps zum Internet Explorer 6 – Meinem besten Freund | Thomas Horster

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:47:15 +0000

[...] mit den diversen Internetexplorernder beste PNG-Fix für Transparenzen in pngs (meiner Meinung nach)Wie verhindere ich zusätzliche requests im IE6 bei mehrfach verwendeten Bildern?den IE6 zum IE7 oder IE8 machen (na ja, in etwa …)Ja, mein alter Freund, was werden wir ohne [...]

Comment on Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization by Tristan Eastburn

Tristan Eastburn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:28:32 +0000

OK I spoke a little soon :)

Line 216 (preserveCss) also need the fix from the above comment.

Also, properties with number values, i.e. lines 199, 203 and 209 (optimizeShortand, propertyCase and mergeSelectors) need to be changed from:
if(!empty($this->propertyName))

to:
if(isset($this->propertyName))

since they all have number values, empty() will fail for their 0 value.

Comment on Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization by Tristan Eastburn

Tristan Eastburn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:29:22 +0000

Thanks a lot for these filters! They work quite well so far and saved me a lot of time.

I know you wrote this article 2.5 years ago, but I ran across a tiny bug with in the CssTidyFilter where the “remove_last_;” property doesn’t get set properly, though. The bug appears for me with Phing 2.4.0 and CssTidy 1.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, haven’t tested other versions.

My build file has this line:
$lt;param name=”remove_last_;” value=”true”/>

And putting an echo in CssTidyFilter after calling getParam() shows that somewhere along the way it gets changed:
var_dump($this->removeLastSemicolon) = string(1) “1″

So the following assignment fails:
$css->set_cfg(‘remove_last_;’,$this->removeLastSemicolon==’true’?true:false);

I will send a patch to the author, but in case he can’t get to it or no longer maintains this project, you can just do this (around line 202):
$css->set_cfg(‘remove_last_;’,!empty($this->removeLastSemicolon)?true:false);

This fix may or may not work for other properties, I have not tried it. The other properties I use (‘merge_selectors’, ‘template’ and ‘preserveCss’) seem to work fine.

Another suggested change would be to use “require_once()” instead of “include_once()” as the script should fail if it can’t find the files it depends on.

Comment on Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable by Какво ново в последната седмица на Февуари | NeXt

Какво ново в последната седмица на Февуари | NeXt — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:50:59 +0000

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Comment on Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable by Zach Leatherman

Zach Leatherman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:23:35 +0000

I don’t see why they wouldn’t incorporate it, since it is introducing bugs in all versions of Internet Explorer. We’ll see how your report pans out. I’ve submitted a bug before to the Closure Compiler team and it was fixed right away.

Comment on Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable by ishtar

ishtar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:29:30 +0000

Nice write-up. I wonder if your suggestion can be incorporated into the compiled code Google Closure compiler outputs. I noticed that the same solution (of not reassigning the argument variables) fixes the issue in IE for the problem that led me to post that ticket.

Comment on If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit by Zach Leatherman

Zach Leatherman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:30:30 +0000

Thanks guys.

Also, another thought: the “infinite edge” case doesn’t quite apply for touchscreen interfaces.

Comment on PHP Pretty Date by Jelle

Jelle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:29:31 +0000

Support for future!


= 5.1 by Zach Leatherman (zachleat.com)

// Slight modification denoted below to handle months and years.

class prettydate

{

    public static function getStringResolved($date, $compareTo = NULL)

    {

        if(!is_null($compareTo)) {

            $compareTo = new DateTime($compareTo);

        }

        return self::getString(new DateTime($date), $compareTo);

    } 
    public static function getString(DateTime $date, DateTime $compareTo = NULL)

    {

        if(is_null($compareTo)) {

            $compareTo = new DateTime('now');

        }

        $diff = $compareTo->format('U') - $date->format('U');

        $dayDiff = floor($diff / 86400); 
		if(is_nan($dayDiff)) return ''; 
		$end = 'ago';

		if($dayDiff < 0) {	# date is in the future

			$end = 'left';

			$dayDiff *= -1;

		}
        if($dayDiff == 0) {

            if($diff < 60) {

                return 'Just now';

            } elseif($diff < 120) {

                return '1 minute '.$end;

            } elseif($diff < 3600) {

                return floor($diff/60) . ' minutes '.$end;

            } elseif($diff < 7200) {

                return '1 hour '.$end;

            } elseif($diff < 86400) {

                return floor($diff/3600) . ' hours '.$end;

            }

        } elseif($dayDiff == 1) {

            return 'Yesterday';

        } elseif($dayDiff < 7) {

            return $dayDiff . ' days '.$end;

        } elseif($dayDiff == 7) {

            return '1 week '.$end;

        } elseif($dayDiff < (7*6)) { // Modifications Start Here

            // 6 weeks at most

            return ceil($dayDiff/7) . ' weeks '.$end;

        } elseif($dayDiff < 365) {

            return ceil($dayDiff/(365/12)) . ' months '.$end;

        } else {

            $years = round($dayDiff/365);

            return $years . ' year' . ($years != 1 ? 's' : '') . ' '.$end;

        }

    }

}

Comment on If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit by Daniel Shaw

Daniel Shaw — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:39:47 +0000

Great post Zach. Very interesting observations.

I have two monitors and have one to the left of my main browsing window. Interesting how that infinite edge disappears when I have to consciously stop in that space.

Comment on If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit by Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:14:43 +0000

IE8 (fullscreen mode) on Win7/Server 2008 R2 works on both cases (disabling the status bar).
Chromium (fullscreen mode) on Win7/Server 2008 R2 said some mean words and didn’t work in either case.

After I went and did this I saw that you noted the fullscreen mode was out of scope, but I thought I’d let you know the results anyway.

Thanks for the write-up. It’s a very interesting thought – definitely something to consider when designing navigation. Multi-monitor situations are another interesting case for this, but I’m guessing isn’t common enough to stress over.

Comment on If the Menu Fitts, We Must Acquit by James Padolsey

James Padolsey — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:01:33 +0000

Great post Zach! And an excellent point!

FWIW, Opera (I tested v. 10) seems to be compatible with this “law” too.

Comment on Trash that “Back to Top” Link by Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00:33 +0000

Is it ironic, then, that I read this article through Feedly, which has a “back to top” link at the bottom? I’ve often wondered if the link itself has ever been useful, considering the Home key on the keyboard exists.

I’m probably the only one that uses it.

Comment on JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug by 10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug - AjaxJ.F | ZendFramework | Codeigniter | Jquery | Ajax

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:08:04 +0000

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Comment on The “24″ Clock on ALARMd by Zach Leatherman

Zach Leatherman — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:09:56 +0000

It’s HTML 5 and doesn’t use Flash! Fully compatible with the iPad and multi-touch!

Comment on The “24″ Clock on ALARMd by Jonathan Sharp

Jonathan Sharp — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:16:51 +0000

Is it Web 2.0 compatible with AJAX? Oh, and what port do you need to open to send it to my screen?

Comment on The “24″ Clock on ALARMd by Matt Steele

Matt Steele — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:54:05 +0000

A few suggestions:
Put the clock tick sound on the page
Make the default video Jack Bauer yelling Damnit!
Stop using sensible technical phrases and start uttering gibberish.

Comment on DIY Webdings – CSS Sprites using @font-face by The “24″ Clock on ALARMd

The “24″ Clock on ALARMd — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:37:59 +0000

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Comment on Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events by On jQuery's live() « Paul Irish

On jQuery's live() « Paul Irish — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:00:28 +0000

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Comment on Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events by Performant .live() in jQuery 1.4 at don’t explain

Performant .live() in jQuery 1.4 at don’t explain — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:28 +0000

[...] significant optimization I’ve been using with jQuery 1.3.2 for some time now was documented by Zach Leatherman — when you use .live() (and if you have a dynamic number of elements you should always be using [...]

Comment on Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events by links for 2010-01-20 « BarelyBlogging

links for 2010-01-20 « BarelyBlogging — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:33:10 +0000

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