Last week I ran into an odd situation with our HTML output from JasperReports in Internet Explorer 7. All text, link or otherwise, was being underlined and I’m not really sure of the root cause other than it would appear we ran into a CSS rendering bug. The same thing does not happen in Firefox 3 (though my research indicated that the same issue occurs in Firefox 2).
In rendering HTML output JasperReports inserts various anchor tags of the form:
<a name="JR_PAGE_ANCHOR_0_1">
It doesn’t use these with href attributes but it does use them for some purpose.
Our global CSS file indicates that anything that is inside an anchor tag should be underlined. This would make sense assuming that anchors are used for links (a pretty good assumption). We also use the Dojo JavaScript framework and the Dijit ContentPane widget allows using the ContentPane (normally used with a DIV) to show external content. That external content can be “scrubbed” to allow it to play in a nicer fashion with the overall site design. That is where the problem occurs.
The scrubbing of the content coming in to the DIV, to filter out things like styles, TITLEs, and other tags, is where IE seems to have issues. Those anchor tags mentioned previously, and which look fine in IE when previewing a report inside of the iReport designer, now all have text inside them underlined. The quick fix, or so I thought, was to remove the A tag from our global CSS file. That fixes things until someone hovers over any text at which point another CSS rule comes in to play for a:hover and all text is again underlined. Probably time for another CSS tweak…
I know that it’s a tough thing to move forum contents from one system to another and I know that Oracle and BEA, prior to their buyout by Oracle, had a different forum system than Oracle. I also understand that Oracle would want to move the Weblogic forum traffic to their own forums once the buyout was complete. However why didn’t Oracle keep the BEA forums in place in a read-only format?
Seriously. I’ve been trying to research some Weblogic 9.2 issues I’ve been dealing with and Google results return a lot of hits to the BEA forums. Clicking on one of those links brings you to the Oracle forums….at the top level of the forums. It would appear that those postings were never moved. Again I understand this given the difficulty of moving from one system to another but they should have kept the old system in place for those of us who need to get answers for our Weblogic problems.
The odd thing is that Oracle kept the BEA edocs site in place with the same URL. Why didn’t they do the same thing with the forums?
Update:
Thanks to Justin for pointing me to the read-only forums. They are located at the following url: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=202
They still don’t have them at the original URL so that a Google search will bring up the posts but at least they have the data available.
Whew. Big piece of work for the summer out of the way. Looking forward to starting some of this stuff in the basement soon. That is the next step, getting the basement set up for seed growing!
I’ve got something hacking on my corn. I suspect it’s the squirrels as they should be the only thing that can get over the fencing I have around the corn without bringing down the fence. I know its not some kind of bug…the damage looks like its from teeth and everything is shredded.
Today I went out and bought some Bobbex-R to spray on the corn in the hopes that it will keep the critters away. The stuff certainly isn’t cheap so I hope it does work. By the smell I’m sure it will 
I completely forgot to write about the second garden plot I put in. I planted three kinds of corn with seed from Vermont Bean Seed Company. My daughter and I planted:
- Silver King Hybrid white sweet corn
- Incredible Hybrid yellow sweet corn
- Seneca Dancer Hybrid bicolor sweet corn
We also planted three different kinds of beans from Cooks Garden:
- Emerite pole beans
- Royal Burgundy Bush beans
- Filet Nickel bush beans
I also planted the Cook’s Custom carrot blend and yellow sweet spanish hybrid onions from Vermont Bean Seed.
Thats it for the garden this year. I’ve had enough planting fun for one year
We didn’t get Indianapolis-level rains this past weekend but we did end up having about 3 inches fall over the weekend with nary a break for things to dry out a bit. It really had me thinking about how I would cope if I was utterly dependent on those vegetables to make it through the year.
For all the complaining the local foods people (and I consider myself one) do about the industrialized food system and it’s impact on the way people live their lives the rains gave me something to think about. I’ve had great expectations for the garden this year, maybe expectations that are far too large given my greenhorn gardener status. As the water was slowly creeping up on my garden plots I was getting pretty upset and in a proportion far greater than the real importance of that food to my life.
I want to be more responsible for what goes on my table. I want to know the place it comes from. I don’t want it to have lots of mileage on it before it hits my table. I want my kids to know where their food is coming from and have a hand in actually providing it for themselves. The reality though is that these are all the thoughts of someone who can afford to have such ideals because in reality my life, nor the life of my family, is dependent on that food. What if it were though?
If that water would have come up just a bit further the ground where the plants were growing would have been over-saturated. That soil doesn’t drain all that well (one of the things I’m hoping to change over the next several years) and based on my experience with the large amount of rain that fell in the Fall of last year it would have killed the plants. If I were relying on that food to eat soon, as well as to have something to put up for the Winter, I’d be in real trouble. Simply put it would have been devastating.
Maybe I’m not dependent on that food but I do have even more respect now for the people that grow the food that I am dependent on. And I’ve thought a lot the last few days about the people who are dependent on the food they grow and how such times have destroyed people’s live. It was only three inches of rain but it certainly provided a lot of food for thought.
If my garden survives all of the rain we’ve had this weekend it will be a miracle. Too much standing water and some of it I just planted so those parts haven’t had a chance to take root yet.
Keeping my fingers crossed….
Was a beautiful day to get the first plot done. I know I’m way behind but I’m not sure it makes as much of a difference this year since it has been so cool for so long. In fact we’re due to get back down for a brief dip into the 50s on Tuesday again.
Anyhow I was able to get in the
* Waverex peas
* Lincoln peas
* Onions
* Hot peppers
* Bell peppers
* Carrots
* Cucumbers
The peas and carrots are from seed. The rest was started in my basement. It was time to get them in the ground though and this was a perfect opportunity because we had to clear the stuff out of the basement. We’re having our basement windows replaced on Tuesday so it had to be moved.
Next up is the second plot and hopefully we’ll get some breaks in the planned rain tomorrow so I can start working the ground.
I replanted the cucumbers and most of the peppers into bigger containers (8-1/2 ounce Styrofoam cups to be exact). They need to get outside but I’m still not happy with the weather we’ve been having. It has been real cool out and since I’m not too happy with the way the lettuce is looking outside at the moment everything else is staying indoors for at least another week.
Well, the onions can probably go out and I’ll probably take care of that this weekend.
I need to act like it’s garden time although the weather certainly isn’t giving me many clues that it is. The new lettuce needs more consistent watering. Mistake duly noted.
