Lee Kelleher

Archive for posts tagged with 'browser'

  1. How to best embed a WMV video clip?

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    I hate to admit it, but I’m stuck… I’m trying to figure out how to best embed a WMV video clip in a web-page, so that it works cross-browser (and cross-platform). Even after all my years of web-development, I’m still confused to which browser supports which tag … nested <embed> tags in <object> tags … it gets messy! I’m as equally confused with the Class ID attribute: “CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6” – surely that can’t be the same…

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  2. IE View Lite 1.3.2+ not compatible with Firefox 2.0

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    I used all sorts of add-ons and extensions for Firefox, (I’ll get around to writing a blog post on that soon too). Since I do a lot of web-development, I switch between Firefox and Internet Explorer frequently during a build. To make this easier, I’ve been using Grayson Mixon’s IE View Lite. But with the latest upgrade (version 1.3.2), it broke in Firefox 2.0! (This made me sad) :-( I’d been holding out for the…

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  3. Dodgy PNG Colour Rendering

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    I thought I was going mad, but it seems that browsers (specifically IE6/7 & FF) still render PNGs differently! (It’s related to the Gamma Correction and Colour Correction)

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  4. Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

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    I’ve known about this for ages, but came across it again today. I still have upgraded to IE7 (since I’m a Firefox convert), but if you need to run multiple versions of IE on the same PC, TredoSoft have two nice pieces of software: IE7 Standalone and MultipleIEs

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