Print Better, Cleaner Reports from Omniture's SiteCatalyst

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If you use the latest version of Omniture’s SiteCatalyst, you are probably aware of how poorly their nice pretty reports translate to PDF, Word, and Excel when you use the “save” tools available right there in the suite. Images get removed, text gets misaligned, and colors get skewed. Today I devised a nice, quick method… Read more »

copy/paste deterrent no longer works in Flash Player 10

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Thanks to Robert who gave me this bit of information. Apparently in Flash Player 10 the clipboard can only be invoked by user interaction. My copy/paste deterrent—that I previously blogged about and subsequently became my most popular and most frequently visited post—was based on the idea that the clipboard would be written to several times… Read more »

Adobe CS4 Installation Fail

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I’ve spent the past 3 days trying to install Adobe CS4 Web Premium on my home Windows XP computer (as the second install of my license at work). I kept getting an error before anything would install telling me something like “the following programs failed to install” (I forget the exact wording). Upon checking the… Read more »

Scriptaculous Autocomplete Page Jump Using Arrow Keys

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When you use overflow:auto in your css in conjunction with Scriptaculous’ Autocomplete, there is a bug that makes the entire page jump around when you use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate up and down through the suggestion list. This bug normally appears only when the page itself is long enough to require… Read more »

IE6 Empty Div spacing issue

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It has become fairly common practice to use CSS to fill the contents of an empty DIV tag. For example, I’m working on a project now that uses the following DIV: <div id=”main_nav_top_shadow”></div> And with CSS I’m giving that div a fixed height and a repeating background image that creates the appearance of a shadow… Read more »