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YouTube has recently enabled High Quality/High Definition videos in the embedded player. That is, when there is a high quality version of a video available, you get the chance of switching to it, although by default, movies will still play in the default quality. All over the net, you can find instructions on how you can force the embedded player to show the HD movie by default. What most (if any) of these pages do not tell you, is that this will not work with versions of Flash below 9.0r115.

A while back, a friend came to me asking whether I knew any Joomla component that would display the pictures from a Flickr group. Preferably, it should be "flashy". When hearing "picture" and "flashy" in one sentence, I immediately think of Lightbox. Unfortunately, I did not know such a Joomla component (not even one that would do the group-thing at all). However, I found the challenge interesting, and the same evening, I had rolled my own.

Recently, I've changed the way sponsors are displayed on the site of the Mini Seven Club Nederland. I used a fair bit of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for this, and I ran into two strange problems; it was no longer possible to select text in Internet Explorer, and text on the phpBB forum would be positioned incorrectly. Because it was hard to find information on these problems, I'm posting it on my blog, so that it may be helpful to others.