It’s been a while since I’ve had to work with a flash movie, so here are a couple things I’ve learned today (applying my new policy of always researching problems before diving into code).
Using some third party flash embed code and the damn flash movie is on top of all your popups and shit? That’s […]
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Embedding Flash
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Timeout for Ajax Mootools
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Mootools Ajax Timeout from blackmac.de
Mootools 1.11 doesn’t make the distinction between a failure due to timeout or 500 or whatever. This lets you.
Oh, and there’s a New Version.
JavaScript Session Variables (without cookies or query string)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Link: Session variables without cookies.
Now there’s a dangerously clever new idea. Use the window.name property to store a JSON object (converted into a string), and it stays there as you navigate from page to page. “What’s this window.name property, I’ve never heard of it?” was my first reaction, but then I recognized it from here: […]
Three Equal Height Liquid Columns In CSS
Monday, May 12, 2008
Presenting this code to demonstrate a couple concepts: gutter images on 3 liquid columns, and a generic column system. It may not work copy-paste. Also, I’m not going to bother explaining anything, or even demonstrating how the classes “double column” work with “single column”. The class clearfix is common enough, find it somewhere on position […]
Cursor sometimes fails to appear in input text fields
Friday, April 25, 2008
link: Bug 167801
This bug won’t be fixed until Firefox 3. The fixed range from awful to horrible, involving both CSS and JavaScript. I am rather annoyed.
I think what’s throwing me off is that I’m used to IE bugs. I expect them. And so many of them are related to having layout, I know where to […]
Table-less Columnar Form or Key
Friday, April 4, 2008
I just implemented the solution to my longest outstanding CSS challenge: how to create two columns of elements with a gutter between them, without any knowledge of the height of either element. Two common examples are a graph key, and a form with labels to the left of the fields.
Your HTML could look something like […]
Common CSS Layout Challenges
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
I’m switching gears at work from JavaScript widgets to CSS layout, and let me just say that web browsers, they are humbling things. But I’ve been making an effort to make better use of outside resources during my development process, and it is really helping. Here are some of the challenges I’ve banged my head […]
Display a print friendly logo when CSS is disabled
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
This is totally how I’m going to do the Citysearch logo on the new version of the site.
link: Display a print friendly logo when CSS is disabled
JavaScript: Defining console.log for IE
Friday, February 29, 2008
Front-end web development these days centers around one tool: Firebug. So we go merrily building away in Firefox, and then it comes time to debug in IE, and we’re screwed. Short of installing Firebug Lite (which I have future plans of doing, on demand via Mootools.Asset), but short of that, here’s a little code snippet […]