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“position: fixed;” flickering when scrolling in Firefox 3.5
Some Windows users may already have noticed it on certain websites: Since the update to the current Firefox version 3.5, fixed images (or fixed containers with background images) start flickering terribly when scrolling, so much that it almost hurts your eyes. So it was here on my site with the photos on the left and the…
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April showers bring May flowers!
“Something’s different here… If only I knew what!” Did you feel the same when you entered this site today? If so: Congratulations, you got an extraordinarily good cognitive ability! As you can see, I have finally managed to create my very own WordPress theme after more than a year. The former variants were just modifications…
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Where has March gone?
There haven’t been any news here for one whole month now – but I can explain everything! First the internet broke down a for couple of days. Well, actually it would have surprised me if we had really been able to surf untroubledly for more than a few months at the Telekom. No, it really…
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Object not showing up in Firefox?
When converting my site to XHTML, the WordPress plugin “WP GuestMap” posed another little obstacle. It is the plugin that I use on the “Visitors” page to display the world map with the hometowns of all visitors. Until now, I had implemented the map via IFrame. Although the plugin does offer a code snippet for…
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Open links in new window XHTML-conform
When I wanted to convert my blog to XHTML (finally), I first started with the Transitional version. There was really only one reason for that: in XHTML Strict, the target attribute is not allowed. I don’t want to get involved in any discussions about whether or not a webmaster may infantilize the user by forcing new…
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Embedding Google Maps XHTML conform
I’m quite glad I can write this post, for it allows me to parenthetically intersperse the news that I did not deem worthy of an own post: I have spent the last three days making this site XHTML valid. First I had started with the Transitional version, because otherwise several things which I wanted to…