Rob van Gerwen's weblogRob van Gerwen's blosxom blogRob van Gerwens academische website- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Deze website is in de zomer volledig geredigeerd en overzichtelijker gemaakt.U vindt nu op iedere pagina overzichtelijke menu&8217;s, die verwijzen naar de hoofdrubrieken &8216;Teaching&8217;, &8216;Research&8217; en &8216;Weblog&8217;, alsook naar de subcategorieën daaronder. Alleen CSS-savvy webbrowsers zullen ook submenu&8217;s te voorschijn brengen.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#klaar Explorer solution- (Found July 8, 2008 ) After a year long frustrating struggle, I finally found my way out of Internet Explorer&8217;s (lower than IE6 versions) incapacity to render boxes the way I want them rendered and its failure to recognize hover anywhere but in links.I wrote a special CSS2-style sheet for IE-browsers and placed a Javascript on top of all my pages which writes (with document.write) style sheet declarations for either IE-browsers or all others.As of now, when you view one of my pages with any of these pre-6...http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#explorer Changes applied (More notes from a Macintosh enthusiast)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Deinstalling Apple&8217;s DashboardThanks to its UNIX foundation, Mac OS X can be adjusted to your needs in no time. Thus, after it ate my working memory (at least, I think it did), this is how I removed Apple&8217;s Dashboard (I used to be rather fond of its unacknowledged predecessor Konfabulator, but find no use for it or Dashboard anymore; I rather have small applications do their job (better)): I got these instructions from Mac OS X Things. hints and notes for the mac os x folks: Note:.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#OSchanges Internet Explorer, pursued- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the never-ending story about how to make Internet Explorer show my sites like they are meant to be shown I seem to have arrived at a decisive break-through. Today I removed the CSS-dropdown menus from the MSIE CSS-sheet and added something way simpler for IE to show in its stead. I have great hopes that IE will stop acting weird. I am sure, though, that this has not yet solved the client-side memory-issue, but hey, what else is a continuing story forhttp://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#breadIE CSS Opacity in Mozilla and IE- (Found July 8, 2008 ) CSS Opacity, By Michelle Goodrich &8211; Mandarin Design. Tips on introducing more or less opaque images by mere use of CSS-styling. Looked into it; seems great. Accesibly explained too. Thanks Michelle. Got this tip from Xiffy = thanks again.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#CSS_Opacity Defeating browser incompatibilities- (Found July 8, 2008 ) QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Kochfreelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and largely free of copyrights.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#browsercompare Flawless software. Recommendations from a Macintosh enthusiast, update- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I am not mentioning bigger apps that my computer life depends on and that work flawlessly too, like MS Excel, Camino (replaced Firefox, on Arno&8217;s advise. Thanks!), Safari, Preview, Mail, Interarchy, Adobe Reader, Terminal, GraphicConvertor, NetNewsWireLite, iTunes, TexShop, MicroSoft PowerPoint, Calculator, ScriptEditor, FileMakerPro 8, and Chronosync. These are all five-star apps. There are also a lot of applications on my computer that I have used at one time, but fully neglect nowadays..http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/07/03#mySoftware2 Saying goodbye to old Macintoshes- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Here I am, sitting staring at two broken fruit iMacs (one Strawberry, one Bondy Blue). The Strawberry is the best of the two; I upgraded it with extra memory and an internal HD, only a year ago. Four months ago my household was treated with two power surges, one of which cost me a backlight in the cinema display of my G4. A week after I finally decided to buy me a new one, another electrical surge cost me the Strawberry iMac. I never got around to repairing it, until today. I googled the...http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/07/03#tired Latex beamer class- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I was only just getting used to prosper, a LATEX class for producing projections, presentations, when a colleague from the mathematics department, Tammo Jan Dijkema, pointed me to another one: the beamer class. He also pointed me to another colleague who has made a local Utrecht University style, all ready out of the box&8217;. Installing beamer is a piece of cake. Apart from pgf and xcolor (which are on offer on the same pages), there are no dependencies on particular packages. In a normal.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/07/03#beamer Temporary silence- (Found July 8, 2008 ) At Wednesday February 16, my websites and weblog will be temporarily unavailable due to hardware reparations.http://www.phil.uu.nl/~rob/blog/2008/06/29#tempSilence |