I ran into an issue today with Flash and targeting the div wrapper (when using SWFObject). Basically, there seems to be a bug in Firefox (and possibly other browsers) that causes the applet to reload when changing its display state. I found that instead of using

document.getElementById('flash_div').style.display = 'none';

that by using an explicit dimension you can achieve the same result without restarting the applet:

document.getElementById('flash_div').style.height = '0px';

Not sure if Firefox 3 addresses this. I’m guessing it does.

EDIT

ARGH. Setting the height to 0 definitely hides it, but little pieces of the flash are still active. Guess it’s an official “bug.”

@$%# bull@$%#

This has the potential to make my life pretty hard. I really hope it doesn’t.

I’ve always wanted to change tabs in TextMate so it worked the same way as Safari. I found this post that explains how. But even more so, it got me remembering that System Pref. I’ve seen it in there but never used it. And it works great!

When I first saw the inaccuracy of the new maps triangulation feature I figured I’d never find much use for it. For instance, I couldn’t use it to get from my office home, since the range it gave for my office was so big. But yesterday it came handy a couple of times:

• I was on the train on the way to Portland and was able to figure out where I was on the route
• I was in Portland, which I don’t know super well, and was able to get the map centered in generally the right area, from which I was able to look for street signs.

Also, I noticed that if you use the triangulation twice in row, you’ll get different results. For instance, the error range was super huge one time, but I hit again and it narrowed down to only about a block size error range.

Fluid is a webkit-powered site specific browser generator like Mozilla’s Prism.

Site specific browsers are web browsers dedicated to displaying a specific website or web application, such as Basecamp, Facebook, or Gmail. They can be quite handy if you tend to spend a lot of your time in a website or web application, and don’t want to clutter up your browser with lots of tabs. If your browser crashes, you’re also safe from loosing changes in your web app.

Fluid allows you to create an infinite number of site specific browsers on the fly, complete with their own icons. I have one for Basecamp and one for my local install of phpMyAdmin.

Go download it and give it a try. Also be sure to visit the Fluid Flickr group for all your icon needs. There’s even a phpMyAdmin icon by your’s truly,

It’s no secret BKWLD is packed to the brim with Apple fanboys and fangirls… so it would also be no surprise that nearly all of us have adopted the most loved/loathed device of the past 10 years as our mobile of choice; The Motorola SLVR!

Ok it’s the iPhone…

I thought I would share some of my favorite iPhone bookmarks and online game sites, feel free to comment with your must haves!

GAMES

iFone Arcade (Network Play)
Play other iphone users in tough games of “Connect 4″, “Battleship”, or “Tic Tac Toe”, The interface allows for in game chatting with your opponent, as well as the ability to create a private game code for that nemesis you need to beat!

MacMost Games
Lots of games, hands down the best Solitaire i have found, and the “Wordspell” its pretty damn addictive. Maybe it will improve my terrible grammar!

Brickshooter
I couldn’t stop playing this one for the first month I had my phone.

iPHONE RESOUCES

iPhone Alley
This is a great blog dedicated to the latest news, rumors, and developments.

iPHONE “OPTIMISED”

I didn’t have time to pass this around over the holiday break, but the IE team announced a few weeks ago that they got IE8 to pass the ACID2 test!

[UPDATE] Garrett pointed out the IE team interview video linked page on the page. I thought it might be nice to link directly to it for you non-reader types.