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On the series of incompatibilites between browsers, I have two new items to show.
First, don’t use location.hash = “#foo” to jump to “foo” link, because Safari will jump to %23foo. Safari’s behaviour seems very logic, but I don’t really know who is right, Safari or the IE / Firefox crowd.
Second, don’t use
<a h ref=”javascript:void(foo())” >foo</a>
You […]

I finally killed an old “bug” in Panoramio, shared with any other Google Maps page I have seen.
It was difficult to extract a link to the thing you were seeing.
Google Maps has a “Link to this page” link. The URL of this link is dynamically updated to reflect the current status of Google Maps, so […]

You can use the onload event on images to know when the browser has finished the download of an image.
I have used it for the upcoming version of Panoramio, where I only show the images after they have been fully loaded.
There is however a subtle difference between Internet Explorer and Firefox related to this event.
If […]

Directly from mir.aculo.us. Internet Explorer does not like certain names for the id of your controls.
People using “tags” as id are having problems to print the page (?). Explorer also gets confused if you use “options” as id, but this time you will probably get a javascript error. To make good things better, it also […]

As anybody that has visited Panoramio will say to you,
it may take an awful long time to load markers on a Google Maps page.
I didn’t know what was going on. I mean, Firefox was much much faster on this page than Internet Explorer, on the same connection, same computer. Why?
A very long thread over this […]

In my previous post Fade in and out I said that I didn’t care about Panoramio not being xhtml/css valid.
If that sounds weird, it’s just because people have forgotten the real goal of validating a site. Validation is a mean, not an end.
The goal is to have a site as cross browser as possible, so […]

Some time ago I read an article pointing out how to migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. The articule is well written and worth a read, but it falls short on explaining all the real problems you can find when making a webapplication that works on both browsers (let alone something that works on […]

Playing with the effects in script.aculo.us I added a new little effect to switch from an element to another one smoothly.
Better see it in action, go to Panoramio, register as a new user, and see the little fade out of “Login     Register” and the fade in of “Hi Foo Bar”.
Sure enough, it was not working on […]