Every now and then, the Windows key (one between CTRL + ALT on left side of the keyboard or ALT and CTRL on right side of keyboard) can get stuck in remote desktop sessions.
You’ll know it is happening when typing certain letters that lead to a windows shortcut key combination effect, e.g:
- Typing B -> Winkey + B =status bar
- Typing D -> Winkey + D = show desktop
- Typing E -> Winkey + E = show explorer
- Typing F -> Winkey + F = launches find
- Typing G -> Winkey + G = gadgets (Windows 7)
- Typing L -> Winkey + L = lock computer
- Typing M -> Winkey + M = minimize all windows
- Typing P -> Winkey + P = display output settings (Windows 7)
- Typing R -> Winkey + R = run window
- Typing T -> Winkey + T = task bar (Windows 7)
- Typing U -> Winkey + U = utility manager
Now that you know the list of shortcuts, the fix is simply to tap your windows key a few times until it goes away.
June 18, 2010 | In
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Equally aligning a row of images so they are equal distances apart with the first image being flush left and the last image being flush right, is actually a lot harder than you would think! Eventually, I turned to Google and came across the solution at CSS tricks.
I’d actually tried the first two approaches described in the article, but didn’t go down the table road. Instead, I stopped and thought, someone somewhere must have solved this. What did they do?
It works really well, but it is not intuitive at all. By the way, you can use exactly 33.3% (instead of 33%) for your width if you really need to be spot on. It works in IE6 too which is always a bonus.
Welcome to the redesigned site!
I created this new layout from scratch, starting with a photoshop mock up and turning it into a Wordpress theme. Hope you like it.
In addition to the layout changes, there have also been some minor changes made to the site including:
- Change of base URL from blog.praj.com.au to www.praj.com.au
- All permalinks are now directly off the base URL (no more /posts/<article_name>).
- I’ve set up redirection to point old posts to their correct new links.
- Change of name from praj’s blog to praj’s site.
Let me know what you think of the new site.
June 14, 2010 | In
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You probably know about the a:hover pseudo class in CSS which is used for changing a anchor tag style when a user hovers over a link.
Today, I discovered the a:focus pseudo class which does a similar job, but for when a user highlights a link using keyboard navigation (i.e., tabbing to the link). In most cases, I use the basic effect of underlining text when a user hovers over the link. I also now do that when they focus on the link using the following code:
a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
}
Note, a:active is for when the user clicks on the link. Also, a:active has to be after a:hover in order for it to work.
June 13, 2010 | In
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If you want to open a link in a new browser window/tab, the common approach is to use the target=”_blank” attribute in your anchor tag. However, the target attribute is deprecated by W3C standards and your HTML won’t validate if you use it.
The common alternative is to use JavaScript but I don’t really like that — what happens if the user doesn’t have JavaScript enabled? Also, apparently JavaScript versions are more susceptible to pop up blockers (although I can’t confirm if this is really the case).
Smashing Magazine argue that links shouldn’t open in new windows, because it leads to bad user expectation as users expect links to open in the same window. They do say there are certain exceptions. I don’t entirely agree with this. I may not expect a window to open in a new window, but I don’t know if that necessarily leads to a bad user experience, you just go, oh it opened in a new window, right lets go there now…
One way to make the target attribute validate is to the XHTML transitional DocType:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Again though this isn’t ideal because of the other subtleties of using a transitional DocType instead of a strict one. So, that’s why I ask, what is the go with the target attribute? Is there an alternate, HTML only solution? Is everyone comfortable using the unobtrusive javascript way? Do I just need to harden up and do that?
BTW, I do realise its ironic that this post links to external sources using the deprecated target=”_blank” attribute. But that’s just the easiest way to do it in Wordpress.
