txt msg review: “…Earth to the Dandy Warhols…”

“new dandy’s rocks save for the last track (possibly the worst song ever)”

(Courtesy of my friend Bruce)

1 comment August 28th, 2008

Need Your Needs

Well, last October, Georgie James– the band– cancelled their show at the Holocene. I was bummed that I didn’t get the chance to catch the show, given how much I liked some of the stuff I’d heard on their only full-length, Places.

And now they’ve gone and broken up entirely, so we shall never know how good of a show that might have been. Il ne me plaît pas.

Add comment August 11th, 2008

“I know kung-fu.”

Internet Explorer is ever the fussy browser.

Sometimes you don’t have control over a whole page but you don’t want to endlessly define repetitive inline styles, so you create a <STYLE> section and away you go! It works just fine in any other modern browser, but IE, at least as of IE7, will refuse to see it.  The solution?  Import the CSS file with JavaScript, and append it to the header yourself.  A bit counterintuitive, but it works.

The second thing that I needed to do was to show and hide a form element, which is pretty straightforward– just use JavaScript to set the style.display property of the given object, and away you go, right?  Well, sort of.  If I set foo.style.display = “none” in IE, it works as expected and hides the element.  But, the moment that I try to set that style to anything else to show the element again– “table-row”, for instance– the whole thing goes crazy and breaks.  The answer?  $(“foo”).style.display = “”.  The empty string makes it all happy.

Add comment August 7th, 2008