Archive for January, 2007

MovieCollector templates

By On Wed, Jan 17th, 2007 In Software I use With 7 Comments Permanent Link to MovieCollector templatesPermalink

I have a knack for collecting. Whether it is music, videos of particular type (like Steve Jobs keynotes), paper gadget ads…or DVDs. I used to have huge DivX movie collection, but essentially give/threw it away due to really bad image quality. This coincided with start of my DVD collection, which has now grown to over 200 movies. And which naturally leads to cataloging software, which is this post’s topic.

There are many of these. Delicious Library gets a lot of praise and good word of mouth, mostly due to its iSight barcode scanning and lovely interface. Equivalent software in the Windows world is MediaMan, although it’s far from finished, if I may say. Although they are nice, they seriously lack one crucial thing once you go past the interface: sources.

They both work with just Amazon, and pardon me – but Amazon just does not cut it. It does not have too many data about the movies, often lacks non-US movies and/or non-US DVD editions. Those apps can be beautiful as Eye Nebula – they don’t have the substance.

Movie Collector imaginary boxCollectorz.com’s MovieCollector does. A lot of it.
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ADxMenu v4.10

By On Fri, Jan 5th, 2007 In ADxMenu With 22 Comments Permanent Link to ADxMenu v4.10Permalink

After finishing this update, I had yet another moment of how in the hell I didn’t figured this before. You know the feeling – you struggle with certain code for weeks or months, and then after you surrender to the reality and code the “just work, bitch” parts, you realize the simple solution was waiting just around the corner of your mind.

With several simple lines in the script, I can now use much simpler IE6-only CSS. Menus now work with any number of levels, without the need to update the ugly .menu .adxmhover ul, .menu .adxmhover .adxmhover ul, .menu .adxmhover .adxmhover .adxmhover ul.... rules.
Even better, you now have – in IE6 – direct (not simulated) replacements for the following selectors:

  • li:hover
  • li:hover>a
  • li:hover>ul

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IE7 bug: will not render z-index change on li:hover

By On Tue, Jan 2nd, 2007 In CSS With 6 Comments Permanent Link to IE7 bug: will not render z-index change on li:hoverPermalink

While working on latest version of ADxMenu styles, I encountered another ugly IE7 bug.

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CSS: 
    

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    .menu li {
    

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    	z-index: 5;
    

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    }
    

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    .menu li:hover {
    

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    	z-index: 10000;
    

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    } 
    

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This does not work in IE7 — it will not re-render the page. Here’s the example showing this problem.

update: David Hucklesby points to solution: IE needs a “nudge”, direction:ltr works. As well as a lot of other rules.