Happy Birthday to NickFitz

**administrator** · 21 April 2010, 23:37

Happy Birthday

**Gonzo** · 21 April 2010, 23:55

Originally posted by Gonzo View Post

I really hope that you are not going to spend the day bug-fixing.

Actually, you would probably enjoy it wouldn't you?

**Clippy** · 22 April 2010, 01:49

I would imagine Admin owes you a B'day cake!

Happy B'day Nick.

**NickFitz** · 22 April 2010, 02:41

Cheers all

I've spent a lot of time this week wondering what to do on my birthday. I eventually came up with the idea of going to Twycross Zoo to video the chimps scampering about, to help me with some animations for an iPhone game.

Turns out I'll be delving into the foul bowels of IE6 instead

Well, unless I don't bother, and go off to see the scampering chimps instead... still, I'd hate to leave all those people sitting in the offices of some corrupt City institution, unable to enjoy DimPrawn's pratings about house prices and social policy because the IT department is too incompetent to upgrade their intranet applications to a browser that works, while I selfishly indulge myself

Nice to see the good smilies are back, BTW. In all the years that I've been dealing with the crock of tulip that is IE6, I've never seen that bug that's making the smilies grow like that. I've tried every tool in the box, and nothing will fix it except the most ungodly hack, and that isn't good enough for me.

FWIW, there was a bit on the Xfm home page that I got working on IE6 using the same hack... but, even with the hack, the same thing broke even more badly on IE7. That was definitely a case of IE taking one step forward and several steps back. In the end, I had to change the way it worked, which was a shame as the original way was very elegant (and worked everywhere except IE7, where IE7 itself didn't know what was going on - the DOM reported values that bore no resemblance to what was happening, and even the IE developer toolbar would report something being at one position at the same time as highlighting its position as being several hundred pixels away where it was invisible).

For the curious, it was the "Latest videos" sidebar module - it seems they don't use it on the homepage any more (and have also overburdened the site with Flash ads as they slide into oblivion) but, at the time of writing, you can still find it on the "Music News" page sidebar. If you hunt down the JavaScript that drives that little widget, you should still be able to find the code somewhere in "pageinit.js"... and yes, there's my comment:

Code:

//  hack forcing IE6 to reflow the list - very dirty, but necessary...

**Drewster** · 22 April 2010, 05:05

Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Cheers all

.......Loads of stuff that might be about monkeys.........more stuff that might not be about monkeys.........

Happy Birthday Nick

**cojak** · 22 April 2010, 06:50

Happy Birthday Nick!

Have the day off man - IE6 will still be here when you get back!

**Churchill** · 22 April 2010, 06:59

Nick, go see the chimps!

Happy birthday!

**Zippy** · 22 April 2010, 07:18

Happy Birthday

**FiveTimes** · 22 April 2010, 07:20

Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

I've spent a lot of time this week wondering what to do on my birthday. I eventually came up with the idea of going to Twycross Zoo to video the chimps scampering about, to help me with some animations for an iPhone game.

Happy Birthday Nick

It a good place to go for chimps, we are going there in a couple of weeks

Happy Birthday to NickFitz