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The following is a set of composite screen shots that were generated to
answer the question: "Does Safari on Windows render pages the same way
that it renders pages on the Mac?".

My conclusion is that it does.

Click here to see the composite screen shots.

What I did was to take a screen shot of exactly the same web
page on a Windows XP machine running Safari 3.2.2 and a Mac running
3.2.1. I used pages that I knew → Continue reading “Does Safari under Windows Render Pages Diferently than Safari Under Mac OS X?”

If you have content on your site on which you want to set a custom line-height, doing so on the body tag can cause some unwanted side-effects and rendering anomalies in some browsers.

My suggestion would be to set the line height on the specific content container (div, span, ul, etc.).→ Continue reading “CSS: Setting line-height on the body Tag Can Causes Un-Wanted Rendering Anomalies”

Here is a link with information on how to run both Safari 3 and 4 on the same Mac.→ Continue reading “How to run Safari 4 and Safari 3 on the same mac”

If you have ever tried to get an LCD tuned just right when using a KVM switch you’ll know that the key is in the pixel clock and the phase settings.

Download and use the attached gif as a test image with which to tune your screen.

Make sure that it is being viewed at 100% (not scaled in your browser) and set your pixel clock so that the pattern is uniform across the screen.  Set the phase such that → Continue reading “Test Image for Tuning Pixel Clock and Phase on an LCD Monitor”

Using a CSS styled unordered list you can create a fairly sophisticated navigational bar with rollover states.

In IE6 and IE7 without some special consideration, you end up with spurious white space rendered between the list item.

Click here for and HTML example of the problem (you’ll need to be using IE 6 or IE 7).

Click here for an example of the fix and a detailed explanation of how to do it.→ Continue reading “Removing Extra Whitespace Between List Item Entries in IE”

Under VMWare Workstation 6.5 I noticed that the arrow keys no longer worked.  After a bit of searching around I found the following:
Edit your "/etc/vmware/config" file and add:

xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R

xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide

xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter

xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up

xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down

xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left

xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right

xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R

xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert

xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete

xkeymap.keycode.110 → Continue reading “VMWare: Fix for arrow and delete keys not working”

I have recently been introduced to CRiSP, an amazing text editor.

Also recently, I had Xwindows crash on me while I had a running instance of CRiSP.  When I went to fire up CRiSP again it told me I was in demo mode and that I needed to get a license.    I have a fully licensed copy

I e-mailed the nice folks at CRiSP and within a few hours they e-mailed me back with the fix.

rm -rf → Continue reading “CRiSP Not Accepting a License Key”

I recently was re-installing WinXP on my folks computer and instead of blowing away their existing disk used an extra one that I had lying around.

When I went to run the WinXP set up disk I chose to boot from the CD and then got the "Setup is inspecting your computer’s configuration" message.  And then just a black screen.  The CD drive spun down and then nothing.

Turns out that since I was trying to use a disk that → Continue reading “How to Fix Getting a Black Screen When Attempting to Install Windows XP”