Entries tagged with: JavaScript
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Right Aligned CSS Background Images / IE Word Wrap Bug
I recently built a design that called for various navigation elements to have bullets aligned to the right of each link. It seemed simple enough but turned out to be harder than I'd imagined. I started with the following CSS:...
Posted on September 8, 2009 10:51 AM
Aptana Studio makes jQuery so much easier
I use Dreamweaver for XHTML/CSS work and Visual Studio for ASP.NET. You can say what you want about either of them or about the purity of hand-coding in Notepad, but the reason I use programs like that is primarily because...
Posted on April 16, 2009 9:15 PM
Compressing Prototype and Script.aculo.us
If you're doing web development these days there's a good chance you've used the Prototype and Script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries. They're both excellent and free libraries which make time-consuming JavaScript tasks much much simpler.The only problem with them is that they're...
Posted on July 8, 2008 10:46 AM
Prototype.js Cheat Sheet
Just a really quick post today for something that I think will come in handy. I was catching up on some blog reading today when I stumbled across a great cheat sheet that someone has put together for the Prototype...
Posted on May 14, 2008 2:34 PM
Book Review: DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith
I've had time lately to do a lot more reading and Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting book is another one that belongs on your shelf if you're trying to learn any amount of JavaScript. I've hated and avoided JavaScript for years,...
Posted on May 9, 2008 3:00 PM
Rollover images with unobtrusive DOM scripting
There are about a million different scripts out there for doing JavaScript rollover images. Most of them however, aren't very good. They often require multiple functions... one to preload the images, one to swap them on rollover, and another to...
Posted on April 12, 2008 5:00 PM
Script.aculo.us Accordion and LightWindow
These days I spend more of my time in meetings and putting out fires than I do actually writing cool new bits of code, which is one of the reasons for the infrequent blog postings. Since I'm not writing...
Posted on January 30, 2008 8:43 PM
VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense
I don't like being the type of blogger that writes a post that simply links to someone elses post. Today though, I'm doing just that because:I'm way too busy at the moment to write original contentI just think this is...
Posted on June 26, 2007 1:32 PM
Building your first Google Map
Mashup seems to be the latest buzz word and Google Maps seems almost ubiquitous these days. While the challenge of using the Google Maps API may seem daunting, it's actually not nearly as difficult as you'd imagine. Having recently tackled...
Posted on March 18, 2007 7:54 PM
JavaScript popups... The right way
This isn't about whether or not you should use popup windows. Everyone hates popups these days but sometimes they're necessary so you should code them properly. I'm always surprised because 90% of sites still do them wrong so here's a...
Posted on March 17, 2006 9:36 AM
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR)
One of the major limitations of web design is the number of available fonts. Traditionally, designers have been limited to "web safe" fonts like Arial, Verdana, and Times. These work well for all of the main page copy but most...
Posted on January 22, 2006 2:39 PM
Fun with style sheet switching
One of the great things about building your websites using web standards is that the content is completely separated from the design. Since the design is controlled entirely through CSS it becomes simple to change. Add a style sheet switcher...
Posted on December 12, 2005 11:39 PM
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