Today I came across an interesting issue with transparent images being used as a repeating background in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 and thought that I’d share it with you in case you come across it yourself and become as baffled as I was.
Recently I decided to provide all the copyright dates on my sites in Roman numerals rather than decimal, just for something different. It’s not a major change I know, but it was something I wanted to do.
Any time I’ve created my own XML file for RSS feeds, it’s been on a server running Apache, and it’s usually worked fine, barring semantic errors on my part. However getting it to work on a Windows Server running IIS is a slightly different matter, as I found out today.
I send you all St. Patrick’s Day greetings and hope that you enjoy your celebrations, if you’re having any, and if not, have a good day anyway!
I’ve been working on some old .NET code which previously worked with Internet Explorer only. I’m currently updating it so that it works with most major browsers rather than limiting it to the one.
By and large it’s fairly easy to do, a bit time consuming and fiddly at times as it’s mainly JavaScript tweaks and converting DOM selectors and the like, but this afternoon I came up against something that had me baffled for about an hour.
So far I’ve had many sightings of the two kingfishers along the River Cam, and I’ve also located their nesting site. They’ve moved on a bit from where they have nested in the past, their new nesting site is in the mud bank behind a tree, which naturally provides them with plenty of perching places.
Thankfully even the rowers who regularly go to and fro don’t seem to disturb them.
I’ll keep you updated!