An issue I’ve come across a few times when adding an Add This button to any .net application is that the following error message is thrown:
The string 'fb:like:layout' contains too many device filters. There can be only one.
There’s something about the Highlander with that one, and it’s a bit irritating to say the least, but the fix is a simple one.
Last week I blogged over at PC Pro on how to display a location marker on a Google Map. This assumes that you either enter a standard address and/or postcode/zipcode and relies on Google’s Geocoder to perform the transformation from the entered details into a latitude and longitude value.
All good. But I received one comment on my PC Pro article asking about OS (Ordnance Survey) Grid References and displaying them on a Google Map.
After a bit of an enforced break (due to being quite busy!), my latest blog post is now up on PC Pro where I explain how to display a location marker on a Google Map.
As usual there are some examples, one simple one and another more complex one which allows you to enter an address which it will display on a Google map.
Comments here or there etc. etc.
I’m a big fan of the web-based media viewer application Shadowbox and use it where necessary. However in a recent project I noticed that the contents of the window over which the shadowbox overlay opens, remains scrollable using the mouse wheel.
I wanted to prevent this behaviour and as usual I performed a Google search. I found many questions on it, but no answers. So I looked into it myself and managed to come up with something that works and is quite easy really.
I’ve just written a simple post over at HTML5 Laboratory all about the HTML5 drag and drop API.
It’s by no means a complete explanation of the contents of this API, but it does give a sample of what can be done with this useful new feature that’s part of HTML5.
As with most web developers, the usage of PNGs within Internet Explorer 6 has always caused a headache, and whilst there are many JavaScript fixes out there, one of the best so far is DD_belatedPNG by Drew Diller.
Unlike most of the other IE6 PNG fix scripts out there, this one makes use of Microsoft’s implementation of VML instead of Microsoft’s AlphaImageLoader filter, as PNG images show up correctly in a VML fill element.
I have found this to be the best option out there at the moment for getting PNGs to work within IE6.
However, I recently found an issue with it, that granted, not many people will need to do, but I did and I also found a solution for it.