Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Luke Skywalker's lightsabre goes on sale

Those of you that know me know that I'm a bit of a Star Wars fan. So I was pretty excited by the news that there is an upcoming auction where they are selling Luke's original LightSaber!

I'm tempted to sell the house and buy it, but I'm not too sure it would go down to well....

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2008

Adobe to release 64bit (and mobile!) versions of flash!

Finally!

It looks like Adobe is going to release a 64 bit version of flash! Now my Vista 64 desktop can be one step closer to a truly 64 bit platform!

Oh, and there is something in there about a mobile version too, which could be interesting, will try it on my symbian mobile....

Full article below:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/11/19/adobe-previews-64-bit-flash/1

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Xbox 360 to get a new controller (Gross green!)

So I was sent a link to the new XBOX 360 controller this morning. Its supposed to have a more sensitive D pad, but that doesn't excuse it from being the most god awful green colour.

Check out a full article at Gizmodo:

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/08/21/xbox_360_getting_new_controlle.html

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Non Selectable options in a drop down

Its been a while since I learned any new HTML, but today I did.

Recently I was creating a list of two separate data sets, a primary list of high level countries, and a secondary list of less prominent countries.

So to separate the data I thought I'd stick an:

view plain print about
1<option disabled="true">-----</option>

But that doesn't work! It still leaves your option as a selectable index.

Instead there is a tag, the 'optgroup' code. It turns out that you can wrap your group of options with this tag, and it inserts an unselectable option into the list!

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1<select name="country">
2 <optgroup label="-------------------">
3 <option value="1">1</option>
4 <option value="2">2</option>
5 <option value="3">3</option>
6 </optgroup>
7 <optgroup label="--------------------">
8 <option value="A">A</option>
9 <option value="B">B</option>
10 <option value="C">C</option>
11 </optgroup>
12</select>

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