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Web Browser – Steps to speed up Firefox

Michael Doyle — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:39:54 +0000

There's a lot of tweaks to speed up Firefox, makeuseof.com have a large list of all the tweaks I've seen so

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-speeding-up-firefox-3-5/

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CSS – CSS Reset

Michael Doyle — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:59:07 +0000

There are many hacks to get past cross-browser compatibility problems. I've run into way too many of them, even though I regularly check sites in both IE and FF. One of the reasons for the problems is that some browsers add padding and margin sizes to certain elements. To remove this Yahoo has a utility called Reset CSS. IT removes all added borders, margins, everything to level the playing field so you can precisely define how you want elements defined without anything added by a browser.

UPDATE: After reading some of the comments and advise on resetting, a lot of people have highly recommended Eric Meyer's CSS Reset stylesheet.

Flash – Transparent Backgrounds

Michael Doyle — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:45:08 +0000

Trying to finish my Graphic design project tonight and discovered how to make a swf with a transparent background. HTML code is:

Add these parameters to the "param" tag:

param name="wmode" value="transparent"

Add this parameter to the embed tag:

wmode="transparent"

So the full code I used to embed a swf file called "brain.swf" is:

This works in Firefox 3 and IE 7, haven't tested it out on any other browsers yet. Flash 6 or higher is needed.

Flash – Cheat Sheet