Floating around forums I’ve noticed this question still being asked a lot: “Do I still have to support IE6?” and often the the answer you see is that it represents such and such percent of web users, and that’s too many to ignore. The truth is, the number of IE6 users varies greatly from site to site. Some of my sites still have as much as 20% IE6 users, and others less than 1%. So, on some I ignore IE6 altogether, and others I try to accommodate it as much as possible without going to extreme lengths, while with a few I’m fully shackled to it. Unfortunately there’s no getting around the fact that IE6 still exists.
May 12, 2009
May 1, 2009
Getting Time Zone from Latitude & Longitude
The problem:
I was recently tasked with building an application that relied heavily on accurate time zone conversions. I, like many people I soon found out, thought there were just a handful of timezones and the usual select list would suffice:
Triggering File Downloads with Mootools
Creating a javascript links that uses AJAX (or, more accurately, an asynchronous http request) to trigger a file download, usually results in disappointment. Headers returned by a PHP script called asynchronously do not trigger a download in the browser.