Things tagged with Hacking

Hacking for improvement

• CSS expressions in IE and scoping

  May 07 2008

  All versions of Internet Explorer from 5.5 forward support CSS expressions. If you are not familiar with CSS expressions in IE, they are a powerful and non-standard way commonly used to plug the gaping and vast holes in IE’s CSS support.

  • Hacking, Internet Explorer, Web Development, Web Design, CSS,
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• Hacking the Form Helper and Editing Multiple Rows with CakePHP 1.1

  Apr 26 2008

  CakePHP 1.2 is a fantastic improvement over 1.1. However like many, my work has a stable release only policy. So I’m stuck using 1.1 at work for the time being. But after drinking the 1.2 juice, 1.1 is missing some of the potent automagic flavours. First up editing multiple rows in models. The stock syntax is lacking in that it doesn’t support this at all.

  • PHP, CakePHP, Hacking,
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• Hacking the CakePHP FormHelper Adding Required Indicators

  May 14 2008

  Indicating to the user which fields are required is something that increases usuability, helping the user fill out the form more effectively and efficiently. These visual cues have absolutely nothing to do with the structure of the document, and would best be handled by CSS.

  • Internet Explorer, Hacking, CSS, CakePHP, PHP,
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