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07Oct08 Dear Mr. Designer
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Generally, if you are working with an external library, such as yui, it’s not a good idea to override the css for a widget’s css class.  That means that every instance of the widget will have that property, whether you want it to or not.  Moreover, it means that in order to fix it, you need to find and override every instance of the widget.

‘k thx bye

13Aug08 [adjective] [gerund] websense
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I hit a web filter today which makes no sense whatsoever:  http://www.conditional-css.com is tripping the “entertainment” category.

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