So I have been pretty busy of late. Work has been on endless “crunch” period which promises to continue in this vein for the time being. It’s not fun. In fact, I’m a little burned out — No big deal though.. these things tend to cure themselves after a time..

It’s just that some of the stuff I’m working on has the “too little, too late” feel to it that I can’t really explain. Plus I’m worried that it’s something that doesn’t bring value to the customer — which believe it or not, and despite what my manager thinks.. I actually care about.

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… and that’s about it. When I was in middle and high school I was in band and played everything from the trombone to the baritone and tuba but my musical aspirations sorta died there. So it’s not that I don’t have skill, or that I can’t learn — I just haven’t. I know many folks that are completely tone deaf, I’m not one of those. I just haven’t had the time/inclination to invest into learning a musical instrument.

My lack of musical skills came gallingly apparent one year at Halloween when everyone in the company showed up playing some instrument or another — and I had nothing of the sort. One of the co-workers asked with complete honesty and earnest, “What instrument do you play?” as if it were a foregone conclusion that I had to play something..

My response was, “I can play the radio..” Which got a chuckle from everyone who heard it, but it left me a little hollow inside. I really do want to learn something I just am not sure what. Or rather, I wasn’t.

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So with the fixing of a very minor bug in my colorChooser in my WPMU theme, the preset selector works in the iphone version of safari now. There are a couple minor CSS issues that need to be resolved with the iphone version, but nothing major.. (I think its something to do with what it interprets as an EM where fonts are concerned.. Not sure yet..

Things like this make me more and more impressed with the iphone and safari specifically. Safari really has come a very long way and is a darn good browser.

The only issue at this point is that the click and drag functionality in the iphone doesn’t work. And to be honest, I’m not sure how to overcome that.. It’s extremely low priority, but was just one of those “hey lets try this” things, since I have an iphone.

More as I do it..

Update:  It works in all browsers now.. Yaaaayy!!   Though IE does this strange ass selection thing that I need to figure out how to stop..  Next; I make it save your preferences then on to implementation!

So its been several more days and I have spent quite a bit of my spare time working on this theme conversion.. I can almost say its complete, but not quite yet.

http://info.rsow.com/projects/fffredesign/

My colorChooser system is about 90% done in Firefox and Safari, and about 70% done in Opera and IE. I’m not at all surprised that it’s not working correctly in IE, but the fact that Opera has the same error was a little shocking. Usually Safari and Opera work in parallel when it comes to javascript. Meaning if it works in one, it works in the other and vice versa.. I’ve managed to break that paradigm with this bit of code.. hehe.. It will be interesting to see what the issue is.. Read More