March 24th, 2009

Fix Youtube Videos from Overlapping Thickbox in Chrome and Safari

On CampusLIVE we have all the site logins prompt users with a thickbox. Recently we added a Youtube video to one of the pages on the site and it produced some problems in Safari and Chrome. The thickbox would come up, but was half covered by the Youtube video.

I tried altering the Z-Indexes of the modal thickbox and the video itself with no luck.

Here’s the fix. Just add wmode=”transparent” into the embed tag.

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March 23rd, 2009

Virtualize all major web browsers for easy cross-browser testing

Anyone who has tried to test multiple flavours of Internet Explorer knowsthat it’s close to impossible to run multiple versions on the same machine. I came across a company called Xenocode that virtualizes all major browsers so that you can make one-click and run any major browser.

Just a few downloads and you’re off to the races:

IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari 3, Chrome, Firefox

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