Snow Leopard, Office 2004 and #$@%! Characters

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On the off chance this may help someone… My mother recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seemed that the upgrade went smoothly, but a couple of days later, she had trouble opening certain .doc, .ppt, and .xls files with Office 2004. The error messages were obscure. Messages from Excel complained about not [...]

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Key events, window.open, and popup blockers

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Recently, I was attempting to open a window/tab using JavaScript from a key handler and the popup blocker in Firefox prevented it from opening. This was slightly surprising since the same code was working from within an onclick handler and the domain of the window to be opened was identical. Here’s an example window.open: window.open(‘http://bustoutsolutions.com/’, [...]

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A browser UI trick using setTimeout

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Recently, when working on a DHTML slideshow based on Prototype and script.aculo.us, I ran into a problem with JavaScript and updates to the page UI. I intended the portfolio code to do the following: hide the current image replace the current image with a new image fade in the new image However, in my first [...]

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