Tag Archives: hacks

Expanding a box to contain floating elements, again

Thursday, June 14, 2007 – 6:13pm

Back in February I found out a neat trick for making a DIV element expand to contain floating elements within it, by setting display: table.
Unfortunately it’s not so neat when you have a form inside of the table-styled element, and you’re trying to view it on Safari1. As I discovered today, the form just doesn’t [...]

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Trading security for convenience

Friday, October 27, 2006 – 6:48pm

Imagine being able to pay your grocery bill by just waving your credit card in the general direction of the card reader. No swiping, no signing, perhaps you wouldn’t even have to pull the card out of your wallet or purse.
Sounds very convenient, doesn’t it? Well, you already can, if you have a contactless credit [...]

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Frankenspeccy has a page!

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 – 4:09pm

Frankenspeccy, the warped, heavily modified remains of my old Spectrum +3, with a hacked on IDE hard disk for storage, has a project page once more!
You can gaze in horror here, or by following the link in the pages navigation list.

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