Marjolein made a new design for her website. And of course, I turned it into HTML. This design uses two stylesheets, one for Internet Explorer, and one for real browsers . Anyway, A simple browser check is easy in PHP, but we're also using Nucleus for her weblog, and in the skinning system Nucleus uses, it's not possible to use PHP.
Rakaz, however, had the solution. It seems Microsoft has built a system called Conditional Comments into their Internet Explorer browser. Using that, you can let IE do something that other browsers won't do (since other browsers will just see it as regular comments). A very interesting concept that is quite useful, because it makes it easier to make work-around for IE non-standards issues.
So now everything works again, the IE stylesheet is loaded when people browsing with IE come by. The code I used is quite simple:
This ensures the tearsong.css is loaded for all browsers, but only IE will load the IE-specific CSS.
posted on May 26, 2005 - 3 comment(s) - tags: technology
Oh boy, I just got passed the musical baton by dominik. Well, let's see then.
Total volume of music files on my computer…
Well, let's see. I've got two places where my music is stored. On my network server is the biggest chunk. And on my laptop, I've got the other part, for when I'm working at a client's office, or when I'm on the road. Now, let's see the disk usage of those two:
du -sh /mp3/
48G /mp3
du -sh /home/stefan/mp3/
13G mp3/
The last cd I bought was…
The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button ... I used to be one of their biggest fans, but really couldn't get into Surrender, and Come With Us was even worse. Now, with this new album, they're back to full strength imho. Yes, I'm a big fan again.
Song playing right now…
Nothing at the moment, I'm watching TV. You can always check my Audioscrobbler profile to check what I've last listened to.
Five songs I listen to a lot/mean a lot to me…
Live - Lightning Crashes ... just the best track ever probably. Beautiful.
Liquid - Liquid is Liquid ... A beautiful dreamy breakbeat track.
dEUS - Little Arithmetics ... The legendary belgian band with one of their most legendary tracks
79Cortinaz - Deirdre's Song ... Still not that well-known irish band, very much UNlike U2, with a beautiful debut
Orbital - The Box ... What can I say. Simply beautiful.
The five people where this meme will go on…My wife MarjoleinzeroKSteefRoelMatthijsposted on May 21, 2005 - 2 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Not sure if this a new feature of Flickr but they've now got some fun Flickr Badge system. You can see what it is in the sidebar on the right. You see a random selection of 3 photos from my Flickr account. It's quite customizable too.
posted on May 21, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
The movie critic that comes by on TV every thursday morning was quite positive this morning about the new Star Wars movie. He says it makes up for the weak movies that part I and II were. This one seems to be more about emotions, and focussing on Anakin becoming Vader.
Interesting. I'll probably go and see it anyway, whether it's good or bad.
The newspaper was also quite positive, giving it a 4/5 rating.
posted on May 19, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Some of you may know that I'm a big fan of laidback electronica. Nice stuff to relax to. In that vein, I can recommend Brent Mottley's 'treeline'. Great laidback music to chill to. Unfortunately the people at Hippocamp seem to have some server trouble at the moment, but linking to archive.org directly works fine Listen here
posted on May 16, 2005 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Until yesterday, I was a happy user of Fluxbox. A lightweight not-too-graphically-oriented window manager for X. But yesterday, zeroK pointed me to Openbox.
Right now, I'm running Openbox. And I'm quite happy. Graphically, it is very similar to Fluxbox. However, instead of flat files with a specific syntax for configuring the system and menu, Openbox uses XML files for configuring. Works great. Much easier to configure.
So yeah, I'm quite happy with Openbox. I'll probably keep it on my system.
posted on May 11, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
It seems that a new alternative to Paypal will be launching later this year. It is called GreenZap. From the description, it looks very similar to Paypal. It is always good to have an alternative IMHO.
I've already contacted GreenZap to see if there is an API that developers can use to integrate GreenZap into their site. Should be interesting.
Oh, and if you pre-register now, you'll get $25 into your account for free. A nice gesture from the people at GreenZap
posted on May 10, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Well, we've just Rebooted the WebKoffer website. After a few months of black-on-white standard design, we now have a real design up! Over the next week's, we'll still be tweaking it a bit, but this'll give you a good impression of how it's going to work!
posted on May 1, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
. Anyway, A simple browser check is easy in PHP, but we're also using Nucleus for her weblog, and in the skinning system Nucleus uses, it's not possible to use PHP.
Rakaz, however, had the solution. It seems Microsoft has built a system called Conditional Comments into their Internet Explorer browser. Using that, you can let IE do something that other browsers won't do (since other browsers will just see it as regular comments). A very interesting concept that is quite useful, because it makes it easier to make work-around for IE non-standards issues.
So now everything works again, the IE stylesheet is loaded when people browsing with IE come by. The code I used is quite simple:
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