Chris.Leipold*ws

Give your visitors the opportunity to change their outdated browser and get rid of Internet Explorer 6:
Give IE6 users the message to upgrade or change

That project seems to be offline but here’s something new, doing the same thing:
http://www.freethefoxes.com/

I just experienced a realy weird problem with flash: I had a form in a flash. The form works fine in Internet Explorer. But in Firefox (not tested in other browsers) some special characters (capital umlauts, at-sign (@) didn’t work. The at-sign worked by pressing shift-2 (that’s default on EN-keyboards, but not on DE). After some searching I found out that removing the wmodeparameter fixes that. I’m not a flash guy so I can’t really explain it. While investigating my problem I found two articles describing wmode: Flash: wmode = transparent = evil (Firefox) (German) and Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility (English).

Udo Vetter takes part in the Befreiphone-Wettbewerb and I try to support him

Since Sebastian asked so kindly I’ll support half Udo and half Sebastian

Hey Collin, für einen Eigenen Artikel bin ich zu Träge. Du sollst aber Deinen Befreiphone-Link bekommen.

Using different codepages can cause big trouble. The W3C recommends using only UTF-8 to avoid any problems. This is hard if you’re forced using VBScript and/or SQL Server. It took me some time to find out how to save unicode data (not UTF-8, SQL Server doesn’t know anything about codepages if I got it correctly) in SQL Server. The field’s type needs to be nvarchar in oder to save unicode. And to use a field actually with unicode you need to preceed an ‘N’, like it’s described in KB 239539.

I’ve to admit that I really didn’t understand anything, but now my script does save Cyrillic data….