http://blog.orite.com.au Think Work Learn Share Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:08:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Orite has created an online tool to emulate HTML/CSS rendering capacity of various Email clients. It references the Email CSS support Guide from Campaign Monitor, and utilizing the email-standards.org Email ACID test page as the example. You may paste in your own email template to test in. Please note, this tool ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-07-08/free-instant-email-standard-testing-tool/ We recently discovered an issue with jQuery.browser.version detection, it reports wrong Internet Explorer versions on some corrupted IE userAgent strings. A corrupted IE8 userAgent string may look like, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-06-30/jquery-ie-detection-issue-workaround/ Yii Framework has just upgraded to 1.0.5, really glad that Qiang could keep up the momentum to release an update every month. We strongly believe with this level of activity, this open source project will soon becoming the most popular and comprehensive PHP framework. However the only problem this ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-05-13/yii-framework-controller-and-view-path-convention/ #ie_css h2{ margin:0; margin-top: 30px; } #ie_css table{ border-collapse: collapse; } #ie_css thead th{ border: none; border-bottom: 1px #666 solid; } #ie_css tbody tr:hover{ background-color: #D7D7FF; } #ie_css tbody td{ border: none; padding: 2px; } #ie_css .csstag{ font-size: 14px; } #ie_css .imp_no{ text-align:center; background-color:#FCC; opacity: 0.8; filter: alpha(opacity=80); -ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)"; } #ie_css .imp_yes{ text-align:center; background-color:#CFF; opacity: 0.8; filter: alpha(opacity=80); -ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)"; } #ie_css .imp_partial{ text-align:center; background-color:#FFC; opacity: 0.8; filter: alpha(opacity=80); -ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)"; } #ie_css .csslv3{ border-left: 2px #F60 solid; } #ie_css .csslv3 .csstag{ color: #F60; } Since Internet Explorer8 has just joined the infamous IE family, which added bit of work ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-04-09/css-implementation-chart-ie6-ie7-ie8/ To those who worked hard on getting IE8 released on schedule, congratulations! In the same time we feel sorry to those who care about website compatibility, this means you have one more IE to hack on. Maybe this is the way how Microsoft helps to create jobs in the crisis, ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-03-20/good-news-or-bad-news-ie8-is-here/ In the past few weeks we have been exploring with Yii Framework, and two of us have started porting some of our project to Yii Framework. One of the first few things that caught our attention is the CActiveRecord model classes, which require relational rules to describe relationships among database ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-02-06/mwbmodelcommand-yii-framework-and-mysql-workbench/ Smashing Magazine did it again, a good collection of php tools, 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools Please comment on your faviourate ones. http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-01-22/useful-php-tools/ We used to have dev site hosted under sub directories of localhost, e.g. http://localhost/project/abc/. When it comes to development and testing, we really want to keep the environment as close as possible to the production environment, so it would lot easier to deploy and maintain. Imagine you have to refer ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-01-22/setting-up-wildcard-virtual-hosts-for-web-development-environment/ Please check out this post on Smashing Magazine, 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience really good collection of jQuery tricks for web development. http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-01-20/45-useful-and-fancy-jquery-techniques/ Although Orite has been focusing on PHP development for quite few years now, we are open to new web technologies and always exploring new tools and learning new skills. I still remember when we first heard Ruby on Rails few years back, we were quite amazed about the raid development ... http://blog.orite.com.au/web_development/2009-01-20/install-ruby-on-rails-ror-on-windows-zlibdll-error/