During Lotus Client testing of 853 we have come across a problem that it is perhaps wise to be aware of.
If you have the following set of circumstances 1. You have laid out a forms elements in a table 2. You display the form in a Frameset, page or Dialog box 3. You have not explicitly set a Background Colour in all the cells of the table 4. Your First cell in the table has an explicit Background Colour set
This happens
The background colour of the first cell in the table is inherited by all the cells that have the backgound colour as the default [NONE] Which is a bit ackward if your font colour happens to be the same as the background colour!
I don't think UP1 fixes this but I haven't tried so it might but I am informed that UP1 is more to do with xPagey stuff.
I have tested this on XP, Vista and Windows7 853 clients and they are all the same.
To fix it set the BG colour to an actual colour rather than the [none] default and it appears as expected
Given my previous contact with bug reporting being less that warm and fuzzy . we are currently looking at the possibility tweaking all our tables in forms so default [none] background colours are replaced with an actual colour prior to 8.5.3 rollout, for now we will have to stay on 8.5.2
Who can say where the road goes, where the day goes? Only time....
Tue, Jan 29th 2013 11:41a Steve McDonagh Although I am not over in Orlando at Connect 13 this year the distance from my friends is all the more difficult with the news that one of the "Geek Bikers" , Kenneth Kjarbye from Denmark, had an fatal accident on the Annual Hog ride.
Stuck in Ireland I have only my words to reach out to Kenneth's family and my friends who are at this time in a dark place they were not expecting to be not even in their worst nightmares .. but there are no words I can think of that really do help, there ar [read] Keywords: community
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Offical start of the Domino Charity Marathon Dander For Cash 2013
Wed, Jan 2nd 2013 5:28p Steve McDonagh The Dander Route
A while back I mentioned that there would be a reprise of the Domino Dander for Cash this coming year. It takes me great pleasure to announce that this year's Dander will be longer bigger and more challenging than the two that have preceeded it. As of today it is offical, a spreadsheet has been created and accomodation is being looked at and foot care product sales have gone through the roof in certain places around the UK and USA
When I say "we" these are the brave [read] Keywords: domino
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Interesting thing coming in ECMAScript 6
Tue, Nov 27th 2012 4:41a Steve McDonagh Javascript always has been the poor cousin to all that whizz-bangery that happens on a server and as a result anything new coming down the pipe line kinda gets lost in the news-stream of super-duper server improvements.
I try were possible to keep up to speed with what's about to come along and it was with this in mind I I was casting my eye over Juriy Zaytsev's EMCAScript 6 compatibility chart and I started to notice green's appear. Some of the current or beta versions of the browsers are [read] Keywords: ibm
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The new CSS3 @supports() rule is really rather cool!
Fri, Nov 23rd 2012 5:42a Steve McDonagh As all devs know , browsers can in varying degrees be a right royal pain in the arse when it comes to standards compliance and when you throw in companies like Never Upgrade a PC Till It Breaks Inc. who are still running XP with IE6, planning your super duper new web site to support them can be fraught with problems.
Most of us are used to the idea of designing a UI that degrades into a DBA-UX (Different But Acceptable User Experience) to do this we have to be able to work out exactly the su [read] Keywords: blogger
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Useful i5/OS tip - Displaying Locks on an IFS Object
Thu, Nov 22nd 2012 6:59a Steve McDonagh I was plagued this week by an odd problem on one of our i5 boxes. I was trying to use the CPYFRMIMPF & CPYTOIMPF to pull in data from a new Japanese division that uses nothing but Japanese characters in their data. This of course means UTF-8 / Unicode data, which can be a bit of a pain to set up in a DB2/i5 data table (particularly if someone forgets to make fields something other than CCSID 65535!) Anyway.... I could get data off the system using the CPYTOIMPF into the IFS no problem at a [read] Keywords: blogger
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Domino Dander for Dosh 2013
Thu, Nov 15th 2012 11:31a Steve McDonagh Gentle readers some non-techie news!
The bold Eileen Fitzgerald and myself are planning a Dander For Dosh in May next year.
Eileen and were joined by the indefatigable Carl Tyler for 2012's walk along the coast between Bray and Wicklow in Ireland. We didn't pester the life out of you because we didn't get the giving organized in time for the actual walk. This year we will get our act in gear and start demanding money with menaces in January - You have been warned!
Conscious of the f [read] Keywords: domino
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Alternates to the evil EVAL() in javascript
Sun, Nov 4th 2012 8:34a Steve McDonagh I am interupting the Design Series of post for a quick Javascript post that comes out of a question asked on the Javascript forum on LinkedIn about alternates to the eval() function in Javascript. The most pertinent reasons for not using eval() are:- 1. Security - it leaves your code open to a JS injection attack which is never a good thing 2. Debugging - no line numbers which is a PITA 3. Optimisation - as until the code to be executed is unknown, it cannot be optimized. Sadly EVAL is way t [read] Keywords: ajax
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Principles of Design #6 - Colour Theory, The basics
Mon, Oct 15th 2012 4:32p Steve McDonagh Right I could wax long an lyrical about colours and how to use them, which I have to say probably sounds odd coming from me given that I am nearly colour blind. However I have been colour blind all my life and to me the sky is blue and grass green because that is what we are taught from when we are small.
Colour is very hard to describe to someone else without using the word "like" in fact most colour names are based around a descriptor that carries with it the meaning of the colour being [read] Keywords: blogger
Principles of Design - Unity, Getting all to work together
Wed, Sep 26th 2012 2:26p Steve McDonagh Bit of a gap in the series, a 25 mile walk in the Mournes and a couple of projects at work got in the way.. Anyway on with the series - Unity, what is it?
Well that is a hard-ish concept as it sort of suggest that "What works ... works". However it is something that all devs should think about as most of aspire to create things that work and have an identity. Alternately we may work in a company that has a well defined corporate identity framework with in which we create our applications an [read] Keywords: ldd
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