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Attaboy Media
Musings on assorted geekery by Luke Andrews when he's not writing at attaboy.ca.
May 09
May 07
→ HTML content above a Flash animation on Linux
Flash content in Firefox on Linux pokes through any HTML content even if it’s supposed to be higher in the stacking order. On Windows and Mac, using the wmode="transparent" parameter solves this, but the parameter is ignored in Linux. The only solution I found was to put a hidden <iframe> behind the content with the same dimensions.
This makes me weep inside, but it’s the same technique I use to make Internet Explorer 6 behave with <select> widgets that also refuse to behave.
May 05
Apr 30
→ CSS Reflections in Safari
The Safari team is really way ahead of the pack in adding new and potentially useful features to CSS, but I have to say, this one seems a little gratuitous.
VMWare Fusion continually impresses me. Today I “installed” Ubuntu Linux by downloading a pre-built virtual machine and then opening it in Fusion. And it just worked. It makes running another operating system really seem like no big deal, which is an amazing feat.
Apr 27
Apr 23
Apr 22
→ Customer relationship management
Candidate for the worst Wikipedia entry ever. Starts bad, gets worse, and reads like the worst kind of meaningless corporate babble that passes for a press release.
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a multifaceted process, mediated by a set of information technologies, that focuses on creating two-way exchanges with customers so that firms have an intimate knowledge of their needs, wants, and buying patterns.
From the talk page:
“This kind of prose drives me to seething fury. What information is contained in this paragraph?”
Apr 21