How to fix NiftyCube IE 8 width problem

Ken Kinder — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:28:57 +0000

At work we use this tool called NiftyCube to round corners of elements (it even works with divs that have gradients in them). The problem, however, is that on Internet Explorer 8, 100% width divs are shrunk to the contents of the div.

That happens because NiftyCube has code to correct rendering problems in previous version of IE. Since IE 8 renders more elements correctly, NiftyCube’s hack actually makes things worse in IE 8. To fix the problem, disable their fix for IE 8. Apply this change to niftycube.js:

Index: tuber/trunk/common/web/htdocs/assets/js/niftycube.js
===================================================================
--- a/tuber/trunk/common/web/htdocs/assets/js/niftycube.js
+++ b/tuber/trunk/common/web/htdocs/assets/js/niftycube.js
@@ -156,7 +156,22 @@
 }
 
+function getIeVersion() {
+    var rv = -1;
+    if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') {
+        var ua = navigator.userAgent;
+        var re = new RegExp("MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[\.0-9]{0,})");
+        if (re.exec(ua) != null) {
+            rv = parseFloat(RegExp.$1);
+        }
+    }
+    return rv;
+}
+
 function FixIE(el){
 if(el.currentStyle!=null && el.currentStyle.hasLayout!=null && el.currentStyle.hasLayout==false)
-    el.style.display="inline-block";
+    var ver = getIeVersion();
+    if (ver < 8) {
+        el.style.display="inline-block";
+    }
 }

Patch for meld to show multiple comparisons

Ken Kinder — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:26:38 +0000

I really like meld as a visual diff tool, but I wanted to have have it show multiple comparisons at once from the commandline. In the GUI, you can create multiple tabs for multiple comparisons, but there is (was) no way to do it directly from the command line. So, I wrote a patch that lets you use it like this:

meld spam.orig spam.mine - eggs.orig eggs.mine - pants.orig pants.mine

The usage is the same as it was before, but now you can specify multiple comparisons, separated by “-”. We’ll see if the patch is accepted; I posted it to the mailing list. In the meantime, you can download it here.

KenKinder.com » patch

How to fix NiftyCube IE 8 width problem

Patch for meld to show multiple comparisons