Liad's little blog

Recently i encountered a problem which was hard finding a solution in the internet: setting the focus to the flash object in firefox and chrome when loading the website. I tried using this idea: <body onload="window.document.FlashName. focus ();"> <object name="FlashName" ... /> <embed name="FlashName" ... /> </object> </body> but while this works in IE it's not working in firefox at all. I also tried detecting the browser and focusing the embed instead of the object in firefox, but turns out that the embed can't take focus easily. Eventually i've encountered this post: http://www.asserttrue.com/articles/2006/11/17/firefox-and-flash-swf-selection-and-focus-problems which solved this issue. In order to focus flash in both firefox and IE, there're 2 things need to be done: 1. add wmode="opaque" to the object and to the embed 2. address the flash by name and not by ID or separating the code for IE and F...

Hey guys This is my first post and the reason i've actually started this blog. you see, it's now 3:00 AM here but i could not get sleep until I share this with the world :) during the last few days i struggled connecting MySQL database, version 4.1.2, through my ASP.NET application (using SubSonic DAL btw - great project, thanks guys!), and sending unicode utf-8 format data. The problem was that when I tried saving data (Insert or Update SQL Commands) i got question marks ('?????') saved instead of unicode characters, like hebrew for example. I've looked up at all the forums and I have tried everything. I mean really - EVERYTHING. For example, I've read that I should send, right after I'm establishing the connection, SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci'; SET CHARACTER SET utf8; So I've tried that... but no good, still got the question marks. I've downloaded the connector code and recompiled it. tried to see what does it sends. The ASP C...