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IE screenSize

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Problem:

Apparently no one cares about a user’s actual screen resolution.  Usually I don’t too, but in this case I do.  In creating a home page with an image as the background and expands as the user expands their window, the overflow is hidden.  However for users with a low resolution this means that they cannot scroll to see what else is on the page.

Solution:

The workaround for this is to detect the users screen resolution and change the css overflow attribute on the html, body tags to be “auto”.  I have two monitors, one at 1600×1200 and another at 1024×768.  On firefox and chrome the height values match with the javascript property screen.height.  On IE the value is always 1200.  I’m guessing it’s because the 1600×1200 monitor is my primary monitor.

Slow Javascript in IE

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Problem:

The menu on this website:  http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/side-navigation-tooltip-popup-bubble/ ran fine in IE.  It was quick and worked fine.  On my website however, it ran slooow.

Solution:

Look for large images that may be loaded.  IE doesn’t seem to handle them very well.  The background image for my project was 1196×1150.  Pretty large…  Gotta adjust for the weakest browsers.

Custom WordPress Comments

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This guy explains how to customize WordPress comments pretty well:

http://devpress.com/blog/using-the-wordpress-comment-form/

 

Disable HTML in Comments

You can try this plugin found on :  http://www.theblog.ca/literal-comments

 

// This will occur when the comment is posted
function plc_comment_post( $incoming_comment ) {

	// convert everything in a comment to display literally
	$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = htmlspecialchars($incoming_comment['comment_content']);

	// the one exception is single quotes, which cannot be #039; because WordPress marks it as spam
	$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = str_replace( "'", ''', $incoming_comment['comment_content'] );

	return( $incoming_comment );
}

// This will occur before a comment is displayed
function plc_comment_display( $comment_to_display ) {

	// Put the single quotes back in
	$comment_to_display = str_replace( ''', "'", $comment_to_display );

	return $comment_to_display;
}

add_filter( 'preprocess_comment', 'plc_comment_post', '', 1);
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);
add_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);
add_filter( 'comment_excerpt', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);

 

IIS 7 PHP Write Permissions

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Problem:

PHP is throwing errors saying it cannot find a directory when trying to upload a file.  This usually means PHP does not have permissions to create or modify files in that directory.

Solution:

I’m not sure why, but adding Modify and Write permissions for COMPUTERUsers group solves the problem.  Found the solution here: http://forums.iis.net/t/1153990.aspx