Archive for June, 2009
Webmarshal Blocks Bing for Porn
I was amused to see this morning that our company webmarshal was blocking Bing for porn!
You may have heard all the fuss about this but you can look at pictures and video in Bing without going to the sites themselves, which makes Bing a proxy for porn.
I have to say though that blocking a search engine because you can find porn on it may be a bit harsh! Mind you it is Bing, so are you bothered?
iPhone OS3.0 – A Good Upgrade for iPod Touch Owners
A quick post to let you know that I have been playing with the iPhone OS3.0 on my 1st Gen iPod Touch for the last 24 hours.
I got the update for copy and paste really, but there is a lot of other stuff in there that makes it well worth the price.
Search is great, it is fast, suggests what you may be looking for and you can refine your search as you need. I can’t really work this out. How come on the Windows XP machine I use at work a search takes about an hour, but on the iPod it is instantaneous? Go figure!
iPod Touch owners also missed out in the 2.1 upgrade, as one of the main features, maps with street view, for some reason didn’t make the cut for the iPod. Well it’s in this time, and I have to say it works very well.
As for stability, so far everything is very stable with no crashes or any significant problems I can see.
CSS text spacing, Internet Explorer and Dreamweaver templates
I have been setting up a site using a dreamweaver template to set areas of text that a client can edit. There were standard titles which I had put into the template and editable areas for copy between the titles.
To style and space the text I was adding into the css styling such as h2 + p then adding some padding. This worked great in firefox but when I came to test in internet explorer it completely broke.
After a bit of investigation it seems that the problem was the dreamweaver commenting that opened or closed the editable areas. The comment was coming between the h2 and p for example and ie was seeing them as not following each other. Firefox interpretes how you would expect of coarse and ignores the comment! Anyway take out the comments and ie works okay too.
This unfortunatel was the only way I could get the pages to work in ie and therefore broke the template.
This may also be of interest if you are adding commenting into your code and noticing copy spacing in ie is not right.