Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Google Developer Day 2008 (London)
1
Oct
13
I recently attended the Google Developer Day in London and thought that those of you who weren’t lucky enough to make it my like to see the videos. Check out the blog posts after this one.. 
Google releases My Maps
1
Apr
06
Google has announced that they are to release their latest technologic wonder known as Google My Maps.
what does Google My Maps do?
The service to be launched in the UK, US, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Australia and Japan offers users the ability to add markers (selected from a library), photos, YouTube videos and more.
The maps once created can then be listed for public viewing or unlisted so as to keep it private or just allowing friend’s access.
can’t you do this already?
To date such features have only been available to those that know how to develop using the Google Maps API. I myself have dabbled with the API and found it to be fairly simple to implement, however, this latest product is sure to be a hit with many people around the world and may be helping to push social networking to a new level.
I’m sure we will see this as a feature on many MySpace/Facebook pages in the very near future.
As yet the product has only been launched in Australia and can be found on the Google Maps Australia home page.
Internet Explorer (IE 5, 5.5, 6 and 7) CSS Hacks
2
Mar
21
I will start off by saying that I understand both the pros and cons of hacking CSS and I am not condoning it, however, I still think it is worth while showing the hacks out there and the potential to isolate specific browsers by doing this. This is only going to be a short article reflecting on IE hacks only.
the hacks
Phew. Right now I’ve got that out of the way lets start off with one of the most commonly used hacks, the underscore hack.
_width:100%;
This will work in all IE browsers below IE 7 but NOT IE 7 itself.
Next we move onto the backslash hack.
w\idth:100%;
This will work in most browsers (Firefox 2 and 1.5, IE 7 and 6, Opera) however it is not recognised in IE 5.5 and 5.
Then the star hack.
*width:100%;
This works in all versions of IE but not other browsers.
combinations
Right now we have some of the main hacks listed we can now start to combine them to good effect.
Lets combine underscore hack and the backslash hack.
_w\idth:50%;
This will work in IE 6 only;
Now lets combine the star hack and the backslash hack.
*w\idth:50%;
This will work in IE 7 and 6.
Now lets adopt a slightly different method of combing using the star hack and the underscore hack as follows.
*width:50%;
_width:inherit;
This will only target IE 7 with regards to applying the 50%.
demo
Check out this simple IE CSS Hacks demo to see the results. All the columns that are set to a width of 50% have the style applied.