Those that have visited this blog with IE6 I apologise.

I tried to implement a CSS 2.0 specific selector syntax that I came across because I am lazy but ending up breaking styles for IE6 users.

Am I boverred ?

Well yes actually becuase I wanted to use these selectors to implement a “highlight microformats on this page” stylesheet swticher based piece of code

I will keep trying look out for updates

and wanted to avoid applying classes to external links

a[href="http://"]


Unfortunately this broke the layout in IE and I did not conditionally comment it

Must try harder but a lesson learnt.

IE 7 has apparently added confusion I am trying to find out whether it has support for the following selectors.

* Child selectors (Ex: h1 > p)
* Adjacent selectors (Ex: h1 + p)
* Attribute selectors (Ex: h1[class=firstH1])
* The :first-child pseudo-class (Ex: h1:first-child bold)
* The :first-letter pseudo-class (Ex: h1:first-letter)
* The :first-line pseudo-class (Ex: h1:first-line)

Some say no [ a good article] and the MSDN authorities say yes

Am I bothered
Well yes because I am trying to implement a “Highlight hidden microformats in this page ” stylesheet switcher as a learning project at the moment - Following on from inspiration gained from 24ways via Jeremy Keith . I sid it was affecting my work!!

With so many unsupported selectors what chance is there to implement CSS3 selectors

Technorati Tags: CSS 2.0, Internet Explorer CSS support, Internet Explorer, CSS

I am working away on a online shop at the moment and realised that I just start to include stuff I have just seen.

I have been following 24ways with interest again this year and when looking for a solutions have got some great ideas.

I have decided that projects in December are a good idea as you have the entire Brit-pack list of web superheroes as consultants.

Andy Budd’s CSS Mastery Competition closes this Friday but the competition is tough. Just as you thought you stood a chance (purely on number of entries), Remy posts a response that made me laugh out load.

Well I keep hoping !!

Begrudgingly I offer Good luck to Remy! as anyone who works for Cats Protection even if they are competition can’t be bad.

I also support the Cat’s Protection you can too https://www.cats.org.uk/supportus/onlinedd.asp

My letter to Santa

(a.k.a. Andy Budd and Friends of Ed)

Dear Santa,

Christmas is just around the corner and quality of work is falling.
I have not got time to do any training as I can hear the holidays calling.

I bet you have been sent lots of letters asking for Andy Budd’s CSS Mastery book and are consulting with Chris Mills and the Friends of Ed gang about whether you would be able.
But please can you send me a copy of the book so I can learn how to ditch
the horrible layout table.

Say hi to my mate Rudolph the one with the red nose.
I have read your blog and the quality of his CSS shows.
I aspire to be as good so please consider this request on my present list.
I know if I improved my CSS next year my clients would be happier and I would feel less guilty having holidays and getting pissed.

Hey, whilst you are about it what about one of those iPod nanos
preferably Red cause it matters more.
That ain’t difficult, you get ‘em from Apple’s online store.

Anyways, I gotta go now Santa, I’m having a tough time.
trying to make sure I have got all the links covered and make them rhyme.

So please remember my request and try your best !!

Yours

Shaun

Just bloggin about this hoping that someone with superior network knowledge will pick up this on technorati or similar

I have a mediatemple grid server (for use on a work project) that is struggling sending email to a particular domain we own. It just seems to evaporate into virtual oblivion.

Not dropping in spam filter or getting a reject message in any logs. Of course the excellent guys at (MT) are on with it. But I needed to vent my frustration.

Technorati Tags: email problems, email, mediatemple, networking

Looking towards next years web training, wondering what are the best options.

I will try and attend @media for the first time and will be attending d.construct assuming these go ahead. What about actual training erhmm??

Technorati Tags: @media, dconstruct2006, dconstruct06, web training

Problem no 1:I needed to add a button so when you get to my other pages on this site the link back to the blog was obvious.

OK so I looked at Support and found a wordpress forum topic http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58817 seemed ok if a little complicated

Then I looked under the hood (as they say).

A .htaccess file lurks

Simple solution/hack add a redirect in a search engine friendly manner of course.

# BEGIN WordPress
Redirect /blog/ http://www.porkandpaws.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress