Eva Young http://blog.lib.umn.edu/young041//kiddleleewink/ en-us Copyright 2009 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:22:46 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Alternating Table Row Color Problem I've been struggling with finding a good way to create a table that works cross browsers with alternating row colors. I don't want each row identified with a different class - because I don't want future inserts into the table to require changing the classes of each subsequent row.

This is where the script I used came from:

<script>
function alternate(id){
if(document.getElementById){ //check that browser has capabilities
if(document.getElementsByTagName){ var table = document.getElementById(id); var rows = table.getElementsByTagName("tr"); for(i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){ //manipulate rows
if(i % 2 == 0){
rows[i].className = "even";
}else{
rows[i].className = "odd";
}
} }
}
}

</script>

Then I set two classes with CSS:
.odd{background-color:#FFEBAE;}
.even{background-color:white;}

Then in the HTML:
<body onLoad="alternate('ContactTable')">

This seems to work on IE and NOT on Firefox. I think there's an error in the code. What I did was take the code the site gave - and stripped it down so it didn't have the other alternating row color options. I'm not enough of a javascript person to trouble shoot.

The page with the code I started with works fine in Firefox (I downloaded this from the site mentioned above).

This CSS table gallery gives some very good ideas about ways to make CSS tables look good.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/young041//kiddleleewink/2006/12/alternating_table_row_color_pr.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/young041//kiddleleewink/2006/12/alternating_table_row_color_pr.html Web Development Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:22:46 +0000 Stellent Developer Bex Huff Strikes Off on His Own Bex Huff at Stellent has a blog.

He's very positive about Stellent:

It feels great to be a part of something bigger than myself... like helping to create a product as uniquely innovative as the Stellent Content Server. Down in development, we were contrarians about everything. We used Java when nobody else would. We had a web based interface before most people had email. We had a data-driven framework for quickly adding features, while others used ivory tower OOP that was impossible to customize. We had a service-oriented architecture (SOA) seven years before there was even a word for it! Most of that was Sam White's vision... we were just the lucky ones who extended it to include our vision.
]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/young041//kiddleleewink/2006/12/stellent_developer_bex_huff_st.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/young041//kiddleleewink/2006/12/stellent_developer_bex_huff_st.html Stellent Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:59:38 +0000 Sex, Lies and CMS Vendors There's an excellent article in CMS watch that goes over some of the top sales pitches made by CMS Vendors.

"You can recoup your software expenses by re-assigning the web team" Sorry, but you'll still need the web team to run the CMS itself. To be sure, they should be able to work more efficiently, and if you previously outsourced HTML conversion you could save some hard costs here. There's a business case for Web content management, but it rarely falls on the cost side of the ledger.

"Our open-source solution means you'll get off cheap" &
"Our commercial solution is better supported than open-source alternatives"
Two sides of the same fib. Over time, licensing fees will constitute an increasingly smaller fraction of your total cost of ownership. The really big expenses lie in customization and integration, and here, some open-source tools will cost you more than their commercial equivalents.

At the same time, you'll find that support for a typical commercial CMS compares poorly against the kind of community help you can receive from from a large, global, open-source project. Key word there is "large."

Read the whole thing.

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Stop back tomorrow. I will be posting photos of Billy Cripe - who lead the breakout sessions: Workflow for Men in Kilts and Workflow for Auditors in Kilts.

I'll be writing my impressions from the breakout session on Corporate blogs and wikis. I did a search on "Stellent blog" to find some buzz about this. I don't think there are other bloggers at this convention. The only blog entry that I found which wasn't press release type material was this.

Developing. . .

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