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Who The Hell is Samuel Garcia?: The Facebook Redirect Problem

Published on November 18, 2009 in Chrome, Facebook, Fail, Firefox, MySpace, Twitter, Web and Windows. 126 Comments

In a nutshell: The problem has to do with particular models of Linksys Routers (WRT160N v3 and WRT310N). Want the fix already?: manually set the DNS servers on your computer, instead of the router. I recommend Google Public DNS or OpenDNS. If you’re still interested in the details, continue with the rest of the article, as well as the valuable comments.

Update (07 January 2011): For users of Linksys WRT160N v3, a new firmware has been available for quite a while now. It is suggested that you upgrade to the the newest version (3.03) (and let us know in the comments if this works for you). Thanks to Bill Creswell for the tip!

Last night, I started experiencing this weird thing with Facebook: it was redirecting to MySpace for a few minutes at a time. Specifically, to a custom URL for one Samuel Garcia (aka SR388, whose status reads, “faceebook transition. in progress”).
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Are Vista Fonts Ready for the Web?

Published on April 1, 2008 in ClearType, CSS, Typography, Vista, Web and Windows. 8 Comments

Windows Vista™ ushered in a new set of screen-optimized typefaces, touted as successors to the Core Web fonts we’ve all become accustomed to. Already, we’ve seen early adopters and trendsetters updating their font-familys to prioritize the newer fonts (Calibri, Cambria, and Segoe UI being current favorites).

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Lucida Hybrid: The ‘Grande’ Alternative

Published on March 14, 2007 in CSS, Typography and Web. 57 Comments

Lucida Grande is such a nice font to use in websites, but because it doesn’t come standard with Windows, we turn to Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans to make sure users get a similar look. Unfortunately, both typefaces have imperfections that make them less-than-worthy candidates for substitution. Oh, dear.

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CSS First-Aid for IE Peekaboo Bug

Published on January 6, 2007 in Bug, CSS, Internet Explorer and Web. 45 Comments

That annoying IE peekaboo bug just doesn’t know when to stop. Apparently, even IE7 exhibits this bug, and it appears to be worse than its predecessor. If you happen to be pressed for time (or are lazy to search the Internets for a solution), applying a couple of stylesheet rules to the affected element should solve most peekaboo problems for both IE6 and IE7:

position: relative; /* peekaboo bug fix for IE6 */
min-width: 0; /* peekaboo bug fix for IE7 */

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Simple Relative Font Size Equation

Published on November 27, 2006 in CSS, Design, General, Typography and Web. 12 Comments

For those of you working with relative font-sizes in your CSS, here is a basic equation for getting the exact size equivalent in ems, given a desired px value:

emr = pxt ÷ pxp, where
 
emr = result font size, in ems;
pxt = target font size, in px;
pxp = parent element’s font size, in px;

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