IE Mixed Content - Page Contains Both Secure and Nonsecure Items

17. Apr 2008 Comments 3 comments

I ran into IE’s mixed content security alert feature earlier today when trying to load our application’s secure credit application page. Obviously it’s a bad user experience and it looks bad on us so I set out to fix it and found the following things that hopefully will save someone else some time.
The reason for […]

Flash AS3 and navigateToURL Popups Blocked

03. Apr 2008 Comments 18 comments

Download a class version of this code here: URLNavigator.as
Update April 18, 2008: I’ve made a class with this code encapsulated. I’ve tested in IE 6 & 7, Opera, Firefox, and Safari.
By default, browsers with a built-in popup blocker will usually block Flash navigateToURL requests that open in a “_blank” window. For example: navigateToURL(”http://www.google.com”, “_blank”); will […]

Alternating Table Rows Using CSS Only

17. Mar 2008 Comments 0 comments

This post will be more relevant in the future when more browsers support the new CSS 3 Selector specification, which includes a lot of neat attribute and pseudo-element selectors, among other things.
I’ve been looking for a way to do alternating table rows with CSS only; no JavaScript and no adding class=”alternating” to the tr element […]

Flash Player 9 Security Updates

02. Feb 2008 Comments 0 comments

Ok, so we all know how much the Flash Player security model blows. So, because we weren’t in enough pain, Adobe is in the process of making the player even more strict (which is good) by giving you even more mundane tasks to complete if you ever want to do something totally crazy and out […]

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