Archive for July, 2004

Inheritance of properties using ID’s

When using an ID of a selector, always remember that the ID inherits the properties unless redefined in the selector.

So, if you have

td {

Background-image:url(image1.jpg);

Background-color:#000000;

}

td#one{

color:#444

}

That the “one” id will inherit the background-image and color from the td selector. Either those properties need to be redefined, or set to none, e.g.

Td#one {

Background-image:none;

Background-color:#ffffff;

color:#444;

}

Note:For a repeaint color hex code, writing it in this format#444 is shorthand to save code space if the digits keep on repeating.

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Why can’t I set the table height attribute to 100%

A percentage for a table height seems to be depreciated because the height of the table should really be determined by the content contained within. This is also true when it comes to efficiency of code in CSS layout and design. Each div container should not have an absolute pixel height.

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Dreamweaver won’t let me select a cell in Layout mode

There have been times where I was working on a page in Dreamweaver, in Layout mode which I find is uncommon, and when I got to Ctrl Click a cell to be able to drag and change the size, I am not able to get the handles.

The problem is that Dreamweaver doesn’t understand the dimensions of the cells, or the ones surrounding it. So I found that if you add in the pixels dimensions for that cell that are listed in the properties manager hard into the code. The cell should now be selectable

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Unforgiven (1992)

A Client Eastwood movie from 92 which had critical acclaim, I thought I had seen it once before, but I think I would have remembered this un-climactic, less than empathetic movie that was entirely too long and was only improved by a scene of violence to a righteous, Queen praising brit.

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Shape hints don’t move with basic shape

If a movie and masks are moved using onion skinning, the shape hints will not always, if ever, move with the shape. The best solution that I have found so far, is to always do animated masking effects last, when the movie is the closest it can be to being finalized, putting more time into the planning stages of your Flash project.

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Murder on the Orient Express (2001)

I watched this movie on TV because of Alfred Molina, who was an outstanding Doc Ock in the new Spiderman movie. With a fairly believable start, this movie quickly spirals downhill into TV movie wasteland. It did have a good point about supreme justice, but did not spare any cliche along the way.

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Van Helsing (2004)

Fun without the painful Brendan Fraiser, Steven Sommers directs a fun summer movie with a cool way to tie classic monsters together in one story and retells their origins in refreshing, unforced ways.

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Rat Race (2001)

With an experienced ensemble cast, this movie was wildly funny and an ok movie to turn off the brain and relax. I particularly liked John Lovitz performance, as well, himself in an awkward family vacation that has too many run ins with the local Nazi groupies.

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