Posts from: February 2011

16 Feb 2011

IE6/7 CSS Specificity Bug

After our team launched the new College of Education site, I discovered that IE8′s handy “Browser Mode: IE7″ mode of IE8 is useless for real IE7 testing (but IETester actually works!). Undoubtedly this “IE7 mode” has many quirks in its emulation we’ll never know about, but after a few hours of hair-pulling I finally pinned down a

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In Programming
6 Feb 2011

Honduras Might Try Charter Cities

From the Charter Cities blog: The government in Honduras is convinced that a charter city could be the safe playing field, with new rules, where Hondurans of all backgrounds can come together and put their skills to work with the financial resources, expertise, and technology available in the rest of the world. I first read

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In Policy
2 Feb 2011

Filtering WordPress Navigation Menus

WordPress 3 introduced native navigation menus, usually created via the wp_nav_menu theme function and the built-in Custom Menu widget.  If you have a menu with a deep hierarchy, you may want to display only the active branch and the submenu directly below the active item (given class “current-menu-item” by WordPress). You can see this menu

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In Programming