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Note to self: I am not a Rock Star. I should never attempt to kick like one (again).
Note to anyone over 30: Learn from the above. Repeat it at least 3 times.
Note to anyone who kicked anyway despite the above: Epsom salt baths help with sore muscles.
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I Googled. I googled some more. I found lots of blogs where people asked in the comments how to wrap text in a CFGRID tag, but either no answer was given or the format was Flash.
Well, for the sanity of those on the same mission I was on, I shall blog the solution that satisfied my quest. (It may or may not satisfy yours depending on what you're trying to achieve.)
A simple line of CSS did the trick in my use case:
div .x-grid-cell-text{white-space:normal;}
That's it, one line of CSS. Hope it helps!
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It's true; Adobe sells ColdFusion. In fact, they have for a few years now. Ever since they acquired Macromedia.
Gotcha...Just like last time.
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For the last few weeks there's been a lot of buzz about IE8 and how Microsoft intended to make IE7 the default display as not to break existing websites. Recently Microsoft decided to go ahead and render IE8 as itself and many seem to be relieved. I am still skeptical...
I've been meaning to blog on this topic, but I honestly haven't had time to keep up with all the online chatter about it and hence was unsure I should bother. Perhaps what I have to say has been said before? Oh well, I'm going to say it anyway...
What I haven't yet seen talked about is the possibility that a dot release -- or even a full version -- of IE may be incompatible with a website, leaving the web developer wanting to 'skip' it somehow.
The proposed "version targeting" would allow someone to declare the site's compatibility with a specific version of IE so that it would render as that version, despite what the user had installed on their system. For example, the user has IE 15, but the web developer declared IE 7. The IE 15 user is stuck looking at an IE 7 site.
That seems to be the common example that raises all sorts of concerns about the web, user experience, standards and what have you. But what if...
What if IE 9 renders my site perfectly, but IE 9.1 doesn't. IE 9.2 is also perfect. Fixing IE 9.1 would take 40 hours of work and my client doesn't want to do it. Shouldn't I be able to skip IE 9.1 somehow?
Please don't try to tell me that sort of thing doesn't happen. It's happened to me with other software. (Safari being one and QuickTime being another.) So it is fair to say that Microsoft could release a version (be it major or minor) of IE that I don't want to support.
All users shouldn't be forced to the lowest browser supported by the site. In my mind, users should get the highest browser supported. That is, a browser experience that is equal to or the next lower supported version than what they have installed.
Let's pretend I have a list of versions I support on my website that looks like this:
7,8,9,9.2,9.3
Let's say the user has 9.1 installed. I don't support it, they should get the 9 experience.
How does version targeting propose to handle such a situation? Is it something anyone has even though about or discussed? I don't know, and if Google knows it hasn't pointed me there yet.
So therefore I blog, in hopes to spark some conversation be it in my blog's comments or on other blogs.
I have few other odd-ball ideas around this topic but I'll start with this one and see where it goes before revealing more of my wacky thoughts...
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"There's something in the air."
There seems to be a bunch of rumors out there about what tomorrow's MacWorld keynote will announce. Among the more popular rumors is that a super small/tiny/thin notebook will be revealed.
I say it's going to be Smell-O-Vision via Apple TV -- now that would be something in the air!
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With the holidays around the corner, family and friends keep asking which Lego Star Wars Gaetano has already. He doesn't read my blog (yet), so its safe to list them here.
Please let me know the kit number and its name and I'll update this post.
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It's been roughly 3 months since my last blog. I was almost afraid I've forgotten how! (I forgot my username and password; it took three tries to get in.)
There's good reason to come out of my unintended hiding I've been living in the last few months... I was reading Eric's blog and came across a post he made that stirred up quite a fuss.
Really, I'm not that surprised at the reactions. Reading something that Eric writes (or that anyone writes for that matter) is far different than hearing it spoken. Some people are far to easily offended by words, especially when taken out of context...
People are far too busy to read carefully these days and are quick to take a blurb out of context and run with it. I'll resist the temptation to ramble on about this topic.
Bottom line is, if I were as good a writer, I probably would have written the same thing as Eric did on the topic of diversity in conference speakers. I really couldn't have said it better myself and I'm sure just saying this much is enough to make some people mad at me. Oh well, I can't please everyone and not everyone is out to please me either!
I've spoken at quite a few conferences and it bothers me to think that I may have been chosen because I'm a woman. I'd like to think I was chosen because I know the subject matter well and am recognized by my peers, but who knows!
At least I know that if I were to ever be asked to speak at AEA, it won't be because I'm a girl!
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Comment from cha on 4/12/2008
it helps alot :)
You're welcome! ~Angela
Comment from Chad on 4/9/2008
Good one! I did not think of introspecting the CSS and modifying it.
Only bummer is it does not work in IE, but i came close to getting it to work with this:
td {word-wrap:break-word;width:50px;left:0;}
Of course applying to all TD's is not the greatest, but it appears this word-wrap css only works on td. it did not work on div's.
Thanks Chad... I'll have to go back and see if it worked for me in IE or not, it might have been due to a more specific rule that I used rather than what I posted. I'll post back my findings later.
As for re-defining the td, if you place the entire cfgrid in a div and id that div, <div id="divGrid"> you can make a more specific rule , #divGrid td which will limit the wrap effect to that table only.
I'll be giving your code a whirl too, as I had not thought to do break-word like that. Thanks again! ~Angela