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Nice article about the inputmode attribute

Kris Gielen — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 08:04:58 +0000

I wasn’t aware of the inputmode-attribute for input or textarea elements in HTML, but this excellent article on CSS-Tricks opened up a new world. Ensure your mobile users have a good experience by using inputmode rather than <input type="number" ...> etc. inputmode="numeric" can be used with maxlength, minlength and pattern attributes and therefore allows for a more controlled input. Note: ...

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How to ignore @ errors in a custom PHP error handler

Kris Gielen — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:26:24 +0000

In my PHP pages, I’m using a custom error handler, to make potential errors a bit more user-friendly. However, in some very particular cases, I don’t want an error to be raised (e.g. I’m logging all errors to a server file, but if writing to that file does not work for whatever reason, I don’t ...

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Update to removing annoying context menu items

Kris Gielen — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:20:19 +0000

Time for an update of the various things you need to do to remove annoying context menu items: 3D Print with 3D Builder context regedit: remove subkeys HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.bmp\Shell\T3DPrint HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.jpg\Shell\T3DPrint HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.png\Shell\T3DPrint Edit with Photos regedit: add HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppX43hnxtbyyps62jhe9sqpdzxn1790zetc\Shell\ShellEdit > New String Value = ProgrammaticAccessOnly Cast to Device (*) regedit: add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked > New String Value = {7AD84985-87B4-4a16-BE58-8B72A5B390F7} ...

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Change text size in Notes pane of PowerPoint

Kris Gielen — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:10:17 +0000

In one of my PowerPoint slide decks, the Notes pane at the bottom in the Normal View showed the presenter notes in a very large font. When looking at the font size however, nothing seems to be wrong: it was 10.5 points, which seems to be the default. It took quite some googl’ing until I ...

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Force DROP TABLE in MySQL with foreign key constraint

Kris Gielen — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:40:04 +0000

When trying to update a local copy of one of my MySQL databases, I got the error Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails when issuing the command DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `table_a`; As I immediately recreate the tables with the necessary foreign key constraints, I wanted to temporarily remove ...

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