Anchor Links Bug in Internet Explorer 7
September 23, 2008 on 1:15 pm | In Announcement, Example, Product Review, Tools, Web | No Comments
Recently, I had to make a big decision: to have a web page validate or to function correctly.
We had just launched the University of Arkansas Community Design Center project and began receiving messages that some in-page anchor links weren’t working correctly only in IE 7. If the user was viewing a project page and clicked on the “Project Awards and Publications” link (or the list of awards links below the big image) more than two times it stopped functioning. What’s supposed to happen is that when one of those links is clicked (all links going to the same place), the viewer should be brought to a specific point on the awards page. Well, on the third time clicking one of those links, IE would just send the user to the top of the awards page, or in essence, the wrong place. After much troubleshooting and research on the web, I eventually tried a deprecated (discontinued) anchor format and it worked! So, instead of sending the link on the project page to (basically) awards.php#projectname, which was an id attribute of the h4 tag on the awards page, we added an older style a name tag/attribute combination to the awards page, just below the h4 tag. Therefore, we’ve got a lot of id designations duplicated on the page, while each id should be used uniquely. But it works for all the browsers now.
Thanks to Cathy Haring with her Internet Explorer testing lab and Cynthia Barlow for the expert programming.
This is a car
September 13, 2008 on 3:12 pm | In Announcement | No Comments
This 1962 Austin Healey 3000 MK II is what I need. I saw it again today at the Brits in the Ozarks 2008 All-British Car and Cycle show here in Fayetteville. Over 100 British cars and bikes, so well-designed and beautiful, from Austin Healeys to Jaguars to Morgans. Click it to see more pix from the show, and grab a cup for your drool.
Animation Class 5-Frame story
September 3, 2008 on 11:00 am | In Animation, Announcement, Projects, Storytelling | No Comments
The Elements of Animation class’ first assignment was to create a 5-frame photographic story and post it into the Flickr “Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)” group, and then see what comments and feedback they get from the crowd at large. Here they are:
Fat Little Piggy
The Lonely Drunk
Directions??
Analog
Organic Architecture
Ready to Ride
Unfortunate Life of a Beet
Unexpected
Can Attack
Birth of a Bubble
Loss Prevention
The Life of a Chick Magnet
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