Oct 17
If you have ever created a simple web page, you know that IE6 should be banned by law. Here is a very simple wordpress plugin to reject IE6 and inform the users.
This is using the jreject jquery plugin. The wordpress plugin simply uses the wordpress hooks to insert jquery plugin into your theme.
Jan 11
One headache of web development is that there are tons of browsers which behave differently from each other. So, for a better quality we should always test sites in different browsers as much as possible. There is a well known fact : among all the browsers, most annoying browser is IE 6.0. But no matter how annoying there are still people who are using it. So, we should always test it in IE. There is a project to get IE running under wine, but I couldn’t get it working for some reason.
So, I tried VirtualBox which is obviously not as fast as wine, but more accurate. VirtualBox seems to show more performance than VMWare(No guarantees – I have only used VMWare once). It’s worth checking that out.
Jan 29
I was doing a japanese shopping site and coded a small escape function in javascript which is also works for shift-jis encoding. The native function screws up the encoding. It worked prefectly, and I went on coding. I was doing all the development in firefox and suddendly the login function stopped working in IE(Actually not stopped working, It never worked in IE). The problem was that I used the javascript string as an array of char but in IE, it doesn’t support that. If I want to access a character I have to use the charAt function. When I searched in the Internet, I found that this is so common but just blogged it anyway.
The chm file viewer in windows is based on Internet Explorer. Today, when I was trying to open a chm file, it started displaying that ever boring “Page cannot be displayed” sign. I was wondering what to do, I was damn sure that this file worked before. Is that a some kind of a virus threat or is that my proxy settings? I was messing around the settings, but no luck there. Then, I started to backtrack ( I have a stack on my mind 
). Then finally I found out what I did last was renaming the directory. So, I copied the file out of the directory and tried. Even though it sounds crazy, It worked. Yeah! That’s it. New name of the directory is “C++ & C#”. CHM viewer (Microsoft HTML Help – That’s the correct name I think) doesn’t encode the “#” character for Internet Explorer. So, it fails to load the file. So, I simply renamed it back to “C++”. May be it’s time for me to install wine + IE (Since I’m doing web developing, I need to test my web pages on Internet Explorer) and strict to linux only. I already have wine, but IE is not working 
If you are a web developer/designer you should have surely checked your site in popular browsers. Specially if you are using css. I always used to use only firefox for the development stages and then later test the sites in IE. But after that i came to aware about the mozilla plugin “IE tab”, it became easier. I started to test the site with IE in the development stages. But recently Nayana have found out that IE doesn’t emulate the Internet Explorer exactly. I dont know what is happening there even when it is using same ActiveX control. However, if you are using IE tab, be careful – just a small warning.
