Wordpress 2.5.1 Released

Posted April 26th, 2008 No Comments »

Wordpress 2.5.1 was released yesterday. The release includes bug fixes, performance imporvements and a security fix.

Here’s a list of some of the main changes:

  • Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
  • Better performance for those who have many categories
  • Media Uploader fixes
  • An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
  • Widget Administration fixes
  • Various usability improvements
  • Layout fixes for IE

However, I came across this post at XFEP.com which says that 2.5.2 might not be too far because of an issue caused by this latest release, so I think i’ll hold off from upgrading for now.

You can read the full 2.5.1 release post on the Wordpress blog.

Great Web Development Tool: IE Tester

Posted April 25th, 2008 No Comments »

This is an excellent tool, an absolute must for any web designer/developer.

Basically this free app allows you to display your page using the rendering and javascript engines of IE 5.5, IE 6, IE 7 and IE 8 Beta, on both Windows XP and Vista. This saves so much time compared with testing your site on different PCs/Virtual Machines with different versions of IE installed.

Anyway, I just thought i’d post this as I used it today and it proved very helpful (as usual).

You can download IE Tester for free from here.

Fixing problem in IE7 where DIV box doesn’t expand with it’s content

Posted April 25th, 2008 No Comments »

Well, this is my first post on the blog, but it’s nothing too interesting, just something I came across today.

I found an old website which had previously been working fine in IE6 and the previous version of Firefox, but when viewed in IE7 something broke.

Basically, the CSS I had previously set a height of 50px. In IE6, when the contents of that DIV went further than 50px, the DIV would expand to fit it. But in IE7 this was not the case, so the DIV stayed at 50px, but the contents spilled out over it.

Although it took me a while to find out what the problem was, it turned out to be a very easy fix. Just replace height: 50px with min-height: 50px. Et Voila! That did the job nicely.

You can find more info on why this changed in IE7 from the MSDN site.

Hope someone finds that useful.

Cheers.
Chris