Archive for July, 2008

CSS problems with Internet Explorer

Every webdesigner have to face the truth: there is no code that works the same on all browsers. This site for instance deals with some serious issues concerning to the different ways Firefox and Internet Explorer reads CSS code, although Firefox meets the W3C standards and Internet Explorer doesn't. How to avoid problems with CSS [...]

Esperanto layout in GTK applications

GTK programs (like Firefox and Gedit) can't properly handle the special characters of Esperanto alphabet (Latin-3) like ĉ or ŭ. It beeps when you try to do the ^+c combination, for instance, although you are yet able to type this letter in another program, even in Terminal.
I use Firefox in KDE and I did exactly [...]

The messengers salad

Do you like ICQ? Oh, a few relatives use AIM. What, does that girl you have a crush on use Yahoo! Messenger? And you open mIRC every once in a blue moon! I don't know if you like to handle these programs simultaneously, so I suggest you something better.
There's a program that provides capabilities not [...]