Its been an interesting 6 months and finally I’ve finished at Jagex
There’s no turning back now, its make or break for both Landon and I.

Giving up our jobs and secure lifestyles, to starting up our first business! Its a daunting feeling but I know we’re both very excited and are looking forward to see where our company(s) take us.

I’ve made a lot of friends whilst at Jagex and hey, even met Landon and without his aid probably wouldn’t of considered starting up a business on my own, for at least another 2 years.

As for the name and exactly what we are planning to do; you’ll just have to wait and see, sorry.
There’s only a handfull of people that know and we`ve only given them a smaller picture of what we are actually planning! With the integration of new technologies and other services currently available to the public.

I can’t wait to start

Ok, here a quick explanation and solution for those people who keep asking these question over and over again and again.

“My element won’t expand to 100% height of the containing parent element?”

or

“Arrrghh, my element expands over 100% of its containing parent element?!”

When you start working with DocTypes (in standards mode) you need to make sure that the parent element has a fixed height or your parents and ancestor elements are set to height:100% (Without the fixed height your browser will not know what 100% is).

This will work fine when you don’t have a doctype or set the browser to work in quirks mode because the browser tries to guess what you are trying to achieve and secretly does the fix for you.

Fed up, with using if else statements all the time?
Want to reduce your code size a bit?

Want to be able to create crazy good code like this:

//Function To Locate Nation
function locate(nation) {
	return nation != undefined
	? typeof nation == 'string'
		? (function() {
			for (var i=0; i
Use simple ternary operators a great replacement for those cumbersome if else statements.

These conditions are overlooked so many times, but can be so simple to use.
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I don`t know whose genius idea it was, to give people the power to embed applets into a web browser; but, whoever it was should take another look at how a browser works!

The amount of hassle these things can cause designers is unbelievable!
True there can be some added value, but why not just create an activeX component?

Due to stupid applets, I had to rethink how I was going to do a project for a client that involved dragging layers through these mystical objects that seem to float over the top of the browser as a separate entity..

Yes thats right.. I managed it!!

Read on, to find out how to make transparent holes and drag layers over applets.
It even works with dropdown menus!!

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I recently ran into a rendering problem (in standards mode) with setting two backgrounds a black on the body & white on the child div with the style attribute set to height 100%.

When you load the page the design looked fine however when you scrolled down, the div appeared to stay the same height as the browser view port and was not actually 100% of the body’s height.
[Try this in FireFox - IE6 I think should cheat and will work fine with some doctypes.]

If your interested, I’ve attached the solution to my problem.

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