compatibility

Making a replacement for a 16-bit installer, program needs short filenames?

I have an old game (Westwood Monopoly CD-ROM) that only has a 16-bit installer so it won't run on my Windows 7 x64. To get around this I decided to use Inno Setup to make a new installer. The game itself is 32-bit but not LFN aware and will run on Vista/7, however the game will crash if the installer I built with Inno Setup is not run wi...

JavaScript over/under usage. what is acceptable these days?

As a budding web developer I'm trying to walk the fine line of cross-platform usability/compatibility and pizazz(functionality). Is this as much as a problem as it was a few years ago? The parts of my site that - dare I say - require (aka make my life easier) JS would not be something that a mobile would want to access (although it cou...

Internet explorer 7/8 support of normal event passing, no need for window.event ???

It is common knowledge that Internet explorer does not support event passing to event handler functions like this one: function clickHandler(e) { // e is undefined in IE e = e || window.event; { For my surprise today, I found out that actually it does. I forgot to do this "e = e || window.event" trick in one of my functions, but i...

Odd margin on my divs, How do I solve this?

Here is the code i'm working on it's not a page it's a treasure hunt for what might be re-used in a page, I ran into this problem last week or so and I'm asking myself what the heck is this margin for a while here Let's picture that I can't use the float:left; tag for a reason, when I use display:inline-block; a weird margin apears on t...

Is it possible to run NetBeans and BlueJ on Mac OS X without incompatibility?

I would like to play around with the Java SE version of NetBeans on Mac, however I need to still have a running copy of BlueJ on my Mac for a school class. Is it possible to run the "JDK-only" BlueJ and the "Java SE" NetBeans together in harmony? ...

Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Express Edition 2010 CoExist in the Same Machine?

Hello...I run a Windows 2003 VMWare Machine which has Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Now, I want to play with Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition (primarily, the Visual Web Developer 2010). Can they co-exist. I have had a look at the following questions, but still posting this because this one is specifically asking about VS2008 Profe...

Only SQL Server configuration tools got installed. What's the problem ?

I installed SQL Server 2005 Express edition on my system. I am using Windows 7 (64 Bit) OS. While installing it said compatibility issues. Though, it got installed and showed successfully installed. But, only the configuration tools were installed. Also, how to create a database or how can I use it. Thanks Vinaychalluru ...