After just sitting there collecting dust for a while, Slideshowify is back and better than ever. New updates include CSS3 support (provided via @rstacruz‘s excellent jquery.transit.js plugin), animation as well as zooming in both directions and better browser support – …
I recently had a chance to make a few updates to the Live XML Editor and address some user requests. Version 1.5 is now done and out. Among the updates are: – jQuery 1.4 support. Since the editor relies heavily …
loggable() is a simple little function for safely making a JavaScript object (console) loggable. (Name was inspired by @furf‘s jquery.bindable.js.) [code language=”js”] /** * Loggable adds a log method to the passed object. * @param obj {Object} Object which will …
While I don’t recommend editing XML files by hand, its not an uncommon task and I occasionally find myself having to do it. As I am a big advocate of web based applications, I was hoping to find a web …
If you’re not using jQuery’s .live() method you are really missing out. live() works by storing a selector-to-handler mapping in an internal hash which allows it to execute the handler for all existing and future elements which match that selector. …
Edited on October 7th: I realized after the original post that the code provided was not entirely correct. Specifically, it ignored CDATA values. Methods below have been updated to reflect that fix. The logic for extracting the text values is …
The Firebug plug-in is an essential and unparalleled tool for (web) UI development. If you’re not using it, you should be. But in any case, some of its features can make a lazy (or busy) programmer cause serious problems in …
Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin is finding its way to more and more high profile websites. NBC used it to broadcast the Beijing Olympics and major sport sites are using to show live games and highlights. (I should note that Silverlight is …
We see fading headlines on the Apple site as well as lots of news and media websites. Rather than listing all of headlines in a “stack”, they use much less real estate by having all headlines displayed in a smaller …
If you don’t know this already, JavaScript functions which accept a single object (hash) which contains each of the properties are far better than functions which accept a number of individual parameters. The reason is that using a hash no …