Monday, June 28, 2010

Add social network buttons to your website

A javascript function to share a web-page on social networks has been added to the free downloads section of Bracher-Automation.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Montreal-Toronto.com: Now in Russian

Монреаль-Торонто: Этот сайт посвящен городам Монреаль и Торонто, а также всем тем, кому предстоит поездка из одного города в другой.....

Thursday, June 10, 2010

And yet another reason to avoid flash

Flash completely ignores the z-index and goes always on top of the page. Why is that bad? Imagine you want a hover menu to go above it -Big problem.

In many forums, people post that this can be taken care of by setting wmode=transparent. However, this does not work on all browsers.

Had to use a brute force solution using Javascript to solve this "minor" flash bug. I get the point why Steve decided to ban that technology from the iPad.

PS: Even big companies do not seem to have figured this problem out. Look at the following page with different browsers: http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/technology/efficientdynamics/phase_1/introduction.html

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Many websites do have iframes without even knowing

So you are one of those who think iframes are the worst thing ever and should be banned from all websites?

Do you display any advertisements on your website? Yes? Well, then I have news for you. Changes are big that you use iframes on your own website without knowing.

How I found out about this? By accident. I could not get adsense to work on a page with iframes today (a point for the iframe haters here). The ads would just look weird and misplaced.

After a lot of coffee and even more tests, I narrowed the problem down to the "iframe" styling in my CSS file. A quick look at the html source after being modified by the provided javascript functions showed it: The advertisement is always placed in an iframe! Thats why my CSS code for "iframe" did affect the ads.

Conclusion 1: Never style the "iframe" tag without using classes or id's!
Conclusion 2: Many websites do have iframes without even knowing

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

montreal-toronto.com: First Google search result for "Montreal-Toronto" in Arabic

The Arabic version of Montreal-Toronto.com* was the first result on google.ca for the keyword "مونتريال تورنتو" (Montreal-Toronto) today.

*montreal-toronto.com is a website about Montreal, Toronto and how to travel between those two cities. It was developed as a proof of concept for the multilingual-content management system by Bracher-Automation. The website is currently available in Arabic, German (as well as Swiss-German), English, French, Spanish and Wolof.