Author Archives: Simon

Combo box or select box do not work in IE7. Solutions here

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Simon

I have come across this bug twice in as many weeks and in both cases the problem and the answers were the same. Problem: When the hosting page tries to display the combo box or drop-down value from the hosted … Continue reading →

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Adobe to stop work on the Flash plugin for mobiles

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Simon

Adobe are to soon announce they will be dropping the Flash plugin for mobile devices. According to a report by ZDNet:   “Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native … Continue reading →

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FireFox 7 – The error console didn’t disappear!

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Simon

After the recent v7 upgrade I went to pull up the error console but it had disappeared. After a minute of horror I discovered it was still there but they had moved it. You can now find it via TOOLS … Continue reading →

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Web apps – Could you, would you, should you?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Simon

There seems to be upcoming trends launching all over the place and to be honest it is a pretty exciting to be a web dev! The hottest topics amongst work colleagues, friends and clients are cloud hosting, Google Plus and … Continue reading →

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