Today I was busy loading a massive amount of data into the body of a table using ajax and in Firefox and even Internet Explorer 8 it worked quite well, but Internet Explorer 9 decided that it would like to add some empty table cells randomly around my “massive table”, now of course I began by kicking something and cried a few times….. but then I thought about whitespacing and the usual problems I had found with it before while using “the best browser ever known to human-kind”(…not) and I thought of removing the whitespaces between the <tr>’s and <td>’s.

Sample code while crying and trying to get rid of the ironious cells:

The really dumb thing that fixed IE9′s problems:

And voila! Remove the whitespaces yourself and IE9 won’t get confused!

The easiest way to fix this is to edit your my.ini or my.cnf (/etc/my.cnf) and in the
[mysqld] section add the “skip-name-resolve” option.

Near the top of the file this will look similar to the below:

[mysqld]
skip-name-resolve

Read more here: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/11/flash-to-focus-on-pc-browsing-and-mobile-apps-adobe-to-more-aggressively-contribute-to-html5.html

So the “real” code that fixed it was the:

This worked because the DOM was loading all the right things but the actual main parent element of the colorbox wasn’t changing it’s CSS to show the image.

If you would like to get a checkbox’s value to send to the backend using jQuery you can always do the following:

Firstly let’s draw some HTML to illustrate our example.

Now we need some jQuery to do the real work.

In our above example we draw an HTML checkbox to the screen and then use jQuery to return the value of it.

Bare in mind that the $(“#chkOurCheckbox:checked”) is an object so we need to get the value of it using .val().

Also bare in mind that it can have two values, either “on” or “undefined”, “undefined” means “not checked” and “on” means checked.

We perform a short if condition on the value and if it isn’t checked(/undefined) then we set our variable to be 0, alternatively if it is set then we set our variable to 1.

We now have a variable called “ourCheckboxValue” with a boolean value of our checkbox.

Just a few short years ago this problem didn’t exist and getting web hosting was quite expensive, unless you went with free services such as the good ol’ “geocities” and co, but then larger companies started up their shared hosting and reseller hosting packages which immediately led to everybody thinking all it took to become a web host was to get themselves a reseller account and start trading. For the most part that isn’t so far off, as 95% of the websites out there sit mostly idle while almost nobody visits them and therefore it’s perfectly fine to share a single machine between multiple clients and call it “excellent web hosting”, but these small guys also try and compete with the larger players in the industry and end up creating quite a mess of things, all while flooding search engines and web development and hosting forums with “hosting deals and specials”.

For all the companies that got in right in the beginning, this was a very viable business model and something they can do really well at, for the rest of you, rather just close shop and make the web that much less hosting spammy!