Fast Dial is one of the best addons for firefox. A problem has occured for many users when they upgraded Firefox to version 3.5. I had the same problem too. Bellow I am posting the links for the solution to this problem.
I used the Restore bookmarks technique
found here and it worked fine for me.
Other techniques for solving this you can
find here.
Any great program needs our support.
Many thanks to all the individuals that provided the solutions.
Hope I have helped :)
Labels: browsers, fast dial, support
A great "Lorem ipsum" tool by Chris Coyier.
Web Designers always have a lot of ideas on how to help their productivity as well as other designer's, the problem is that we rarely have the time to implement and share these ideas.
Once in a while though, when an idea exists for a long time in the heads of designers, someone talented enough eventually finds the time and makes an idea come to life!
This is what Chris Coyier has created, a page with ready made "Lorem ipsum" together with the html tags!
Great Job Chris !
Thank you for your excellent tool!
Visit the page:
HTMLipsumLabels: concepts, tools
by Nick Fassolas
This code will make the Fx.Slide start hidden and when the link is clicked it will slide open the hidden division.
Give your JS file or your CSS any filename you want but remember to link them in your html page, I have named them both “horizontal”
Here is the code I used to make it work.
The javascript (horizontal.js):
window.addEvent('domready', function() {
var status = {
'true': 'open',
'false': 'close'
};
//--horizontal
var myHorizontalSlide = new Fx.Slide('horizontal_slide').hide('horizontal');
$('h_slidein').addEvent('click', function(e){
e.stop();
myHorizontalSlide.slideIn('horizontal');
});
$('h_slideout').addEvent('click', function(e){
e.stop();
myHorizontalSlide.slideOut('horizontal');
});
$('h_toggle').addEvent('click', function(e){
e.stop();
myHorizontalSlide.toggle();
});
$('h_hide').addEvent('click', function(e){
e.stop();
myHorizontalSlide.hide();
$('horizontal_status').set('html', status[myHorizontalSlide.open]);
});
$('h_show').addEvent('click', function(e){
e.stop();
myHorizontalSlide.show();
$('horizontal_status').set('html', status[myHorizontalSlide.open]);
});
// When Horizontal Slide ends its transition, we check for its status
// note that complete will not affect 'hide' and 'show' methods
myHorizontalSlide.addEvent('complete', function() {
$('horizontal_status').set('html', status[myHorizontalSlide.open]);
});
});
The CSS (horizontal.css):
h3.section {
margin-top: 1em;
}
#horizontal_slide {
background: #000;
color: #8A7575;
padding: 10px;
border: 5px solid #F3F1F1;
font-weight: bold;
width:600px;
min-height:700px;
}
div.marginbottom {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
And finally the html:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="horizontal.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="horizontal.js"></script>
<title>Fx.Slide horisontal start hidden</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3 class="section">Horizontal</h3>
<div class="marginbottom">
<a id="h_slideout" href="#">close</a>
|
<a id="h_slidein" href="#">open</a>
| <strong>status</strong>: <span id="horizontal_status">open</span>
</div>
<div id="horizontal_slide">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do.
</div>
</body>
Hope it helps you in your endeavors for a creative and exciting design.
Labels: concepts, development, javascript, mootools
Educating the user
By Nick Fassolas
I firmly believe that one of my jobs is to try to “educate” users, in things that web designers take for granted, for instance:
a good web designer knows that IE6 is an out dated browser, full of bugs and flaws. That’s the reason why most web designers choose to develop and design websites for modern browsers.
Users don’t know about these problems, they don’t understand CSS conflicts or other cross browser incompatibilities and even if they know or have heard about them… they just don’t care!
So what is there for a web designer to do?
Seriously now…education people, education. That’s what makes us better in all matters, why should it be any different in this case.
A couple of years ago when I decided to redesign my website I didn’t want to make it easy on ie6 users, I decided to get them involved and help them realize that, everything gets better, evolves into something new, it’s safer, more trustworthy and more functional, uses better technology and is faster than the one before, examples of that progress you can find anywhere and in anything! (Cars, computers, mobile phones, toys, sound systems etc).
For some one that visits my site with a modern browser (you know who you are) everything will look fine (unless green is not a color you like). On the other hand is some one visits my site with ie6 he will see it in black and white! (Like viewing an old television) No transparency, no colors or any other effects.
Why did you do such a thing? You might ask.
My answer is simple and it’s the truth, because it’s time for ie6 users to move into the 21st century.
I could have used a script of some sort, but doing that would be against my personal ethics, preventing the user to see things completely is like turning someone blind against his own will (and I’m not here to torture people), changing the colors and making it look slightly…grey, is my way of trying to educate the user.
Of course using a code to prevent ie6 from interpreting the html code that makes the site visible is something that could be done, but only as an extreme measure taken against Microsoft’s
Browserosaurus! (Info: Internet Explorer 6 has been with us since August 27, 2001)
Hopefully in a couple of years (sooner I hope), by helping users see that things change in the world wide web, by showing them the way to a better browsing experience and informing them in a way that does not offend them, we might see a browser statistic that does not include an ie6 25% market share in it!
PS: And also save web designers a lot of time…we have kids too you know.
Labels: browsers, education, web design, web standards
