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  • Coloring odd/even rows of lists

    CSS, Javascript, jQuery 23.06.2009 No Comments

    There are several methods you can use to create odd/even stripes for lists to make them easier to scan. A List Apart had an article about creating stripes, but being over five years old, it understandably doesn’t cover some newer techniques which are available. Then again, the need to support legacy browsers makes the article more relevant than you would think at first.

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  • Setting Cookies

    Web Apps 19.06.2009 No Comments

    A co-worker mentioned one day that he was having problems with setting multiple cookies in the same Set-Cookie HTTP header, but things were fine if they were set with separate headers. He noted that it was not consistent across browsers, and that the specs seem to indicate that you can set multiple cookies with a single Set-Cookie header; RFC 2109 confirms that.

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  • WordPress and comments

    Meta 15.06.2009 2 Comments

    Imagine my surprise when I finally got around to testing comments on this live site and found they weren’t working at all. Then imagine my confusion of them working on my test site just fine, with all the same settings.

    My apologies for anyone who has tried to submit a comment. For what it’s worth, you should be able to do so now.

    Seems with the settings I had (only allowing comments from logged-in users) you can type in a comment but after submission you get a blank page.

    Sigh.

    I’ve changed the settings to not require a login for comment submissions. Hopefully I’ll be able to take a closer look at some point to see why things weren’t working.

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