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Most of an HTML document can be designed (styled) using CSS. This allows designers to apply their own look and feel to everything on the page. Everything except for the HTML input element used for file uploads. The file upload element will generally look like this, although it…
Continue readingFirst; is “Folder” really the new “Directory”? I never know which to write these days. Second; don’t set up an FTP server and and then use the file system to change the name of a users home directory. The FTP server won’t know about the name change. Maybe…
Continue readingI wanted to publish some pictures of my Safari IOS web app for the auto emailer program. The web app is a web page that mimics the IOS user interface and is a remote user interface for the auto email responder program I wrote for Windows. The original…
Continue readingI don’t have anything new going on with my latest home projects. I have been working a bit on the auto email web interface, the interface that looks like a native IOS app, but nothing has been worth reporting yet. I fixed a bug at work today. The…
Continue readingI have a Mac Mini that I got for free. It does not have an Intel processor so I cannot upgrade the OS and cannot do any IOS development. I can do OSX development. My plan is to write a program that uses Cocoa and OpenGL version 2.x….
Continue readingI’m writing a lot of code most evenings. Here is some code I wrote in JavaScript to submit an AJAX request using multipart/form-data encoding. This is better than the more typical application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding because data does not need to be reformatted if it contains things that are not…
Continue readingI discovered an odd feature of the mobile Safari browser on IOS 5 on my iPad. I suspect that this is the same for the iPhone and iPod as well. If a page is set up so that it takes 100% of the screen and then the page…
Continue readingI am working on JavaScript code that will show a preview of a local image file before it is uploaded. A web page has a preview area that uses an HTML5 canvas for the preview so that the image can be scaled to fit in the area while…
Continue readingI‘m not really testing HTML5 on my new iPad. I’m just playing games. Planetary Defense is the only thing I’ve written and it works way better than expected. The strangest thing happened yesterday: Take a look at the little red dot in the lower right corner. Here it…
Continue readingI am trying an iPad app for blogging. This one called BE Write seems to work ok. I’ll know more after I try it for a while. So far, the only problem is tha it won’t wok in landscape mode and it’s hard to type on the smaller…
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