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Archive for March, 2010

How hungry is your console?

31.03.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Just for fun Comments: none

ronansprake

A recent article on confused.com is a really interesting overview of how much power the big three consoles consume while you’re commanding orc minions.

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IE9: Microsoft continues to improve Internet Explorer

30.03.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: 1

ronansprake

New browser versions are hotly anticipated in the client-side region of the Soak studio.

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Firefox 2, IE6 and Inline Block

12.03.2010 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: Uncategorized Comments: 1

adamcollison

I recently stumbled across yet another random bug in FireFox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6 where the CSS declaration “display: inline-block” is not supported. There are a few ways to fix this. This is how we fix the issue, in our opinion this is the most stable and correct way of getting the browsers to render elements correctly.

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Resizing Youtube Embed Video using PHP preg_replace

11.03.2010 By: leenewell">leenewell Under: Uncategorized Comments: 4

leenewell

Below is a PHP function that takes in youtube embed code, a desired width and height. It returns the embed code with width and height resized to the desired dimensions.

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