It’s time of HTML5/CSS3
Guys from Enavu network have released the first HTML5/CSS3 framework named 52framework which helps to make our life easier.
Now with HTML5 and CSS3, gradient and round corner can be created easily in CSS instead using images. The question is whether it works with the old-crap-huge-mistake-browser from Microsoft IE6?!
The answer is YES, hereunder a guideline to show you how to do it
fix the bug of FileReference onComplete event on Mac OS
For some unknown reason, the FileReference class doesn’t work properly in Mac OS. I tried to work around and find out the Flash Player on Mac OS can only receive the event when we put a returning value in the server-side script.
Good to know!
The Ban on WordPress Blogs in China Is Unlikely to Be Lifted
China has the highest number of Internet users in the world along with a booming economy and that explains why American web companies like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft co-operate wholeheartedly with the Chinese government in implementing internet censorship there.
For instance, Google shows a different set of search results in China to keep the communists happy, Microsoft is known to block blog entries that contain banned keywords while Yahoo has been accused of helping Beijing arrest an innocent journalist by providing details of his personal email account.
While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies - US Congress to Yahoo.
But there are exceptions.
Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress blogging software, faced a similar moral dilemma in 2006 when China suddenly blocked access to all WordPress.com blogs inside the mainland.
Matt told AFP that ban on WordPress in China could have been lifted had he agreed to block certain words or topics and give up information to the Chinese communist government about [WordPress] users.
I started thinking about the DNA of the company. That sort of company is not one I would wake up every day and feel passionate about working in.
Unlike other giants, WordPress took a more ethical stand refusing to comply with the Chinese diktats and WP blogs therefore still remain blocked in China. The situation is likely to stay the same forever unless China relaxes their censorship laws which again sounds like a remote possibility.
Some workarounds
The advantage with blogs is that they all provide RSS feeds so you can easily read any blog using a web based feed readers even if the main WordPress site is blocked.
In case of WordPress blogs, you can append the string “.nyud.net” to the blog URL and it should open just fine. For instance, if the main blog is located at labnol.wordpress.com, you can access a mirror image of this site from labnol.wordpress.com.nyud.net. If that doesn’t solve the problem, here are some more ways to access blocked sites.
Wordpress.com blogs now support “post by email” so Chinese bloggers can publish new content on WordPress blogs using any of the email programs.
(labnol.org)
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How to display subscript and superscript characters in dynamic textfields
I faced a challenge yesterday when was trying to display the superscript in dynamic textfields. The problem is <sup> tag is not supported by Flash even if you use htmlText. So here is the solution:
1. Download the GG Subscript and GG Superscript fonts from the url underneath :
http://blog.ggshow.com/index.php/downloads/2008/09/21/download_free_truetype_fonts
2. Install the fonts and open your Flash file (restarting Flash is required).
3. Create a dynamic textfield outside the stage and embed all the characters you need (you can also embed the font by creating a font symbol in the library with a linkage)
4. Than your HTML text to be loaded to your dynamic textfield should have the font tag like this:
Pencil<font face=”GG Superscript”>VN</font>
And that’s it!
