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Partial HTML5 support in IE8 without shims or javascript

February 19, 2014

Today, I stumbled across something strange in IE8 where it was able to identify and render HTML5 elements like <section> and <article> without the use of the HTML5-shiv or even without having to use document.createElement() . I figured it had to do with an "xmlns" attributed which accidently landed up on one of the <section> tags in my html. To illustrate my point, I'll use variations of the following HTML: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> .outer,.middle,.inner { padding: 20px; } .outer { border: 1px solid black; background: lightblue; } .middle { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; } .inner { border...

ListView/ExpandableListView randomly changes background colour on scroll/click/expand/collapse

February 02, 2014

Working on the same android app which I posted about a couple of times earlier, I had this one feature I wanted to implement where I show a list of persons and highlight those from that list who have a birthday today. I tried a couple of different approaches to to the "highlight" the list items which had a birthday today for e.g: setting the background colour for those items, setting up a background icon for those, changing the text colour of the list item, and with all of these I faced 1 common problem: if I had to scroll the list or expand/collapse one item group (in case of ExpandableListView ), then it would end up highlighting some random items from the list, and if I continued that excercise, finally almost all items would get highlighted. Since I had used an ExpandableListView , my getGroupView method looked somewhat like this: @Override public View getGroupView(int groupPosition, ..., ViewGroup parent) { Person person = (Person) getGroup(groupPosition); ...