Are you a fairly skilled web developer? Get enough money to make ends meet, maybe have some benefits kicked in too? You’re content with life in general and is a nice person?
You know what? I think it’s time for you to give something back.
Every time a new web site is to be designed; every time I open a magazine about building web pages; every customer I meet. It’s always there, the ridiculous question:
How big monitors do people have nowadays?
I very rarely use the term Web 2.0 because to me it’s almost every time about misused to create a non-existent hype, a company’s excuse for creating an inaccessible AJAX web site and other similar things. With that said, I recommend reading Paul Scriven’s two articles:
Apparently Opera’s claim to support document.all in conjunction with not mimicking it exactly like IE led to some problems in Opera 9 when I use my getElementsByAttribute function. Thanks to Ash Searle who tipped me about this and also explained what the problem was. The code in the JavaScript file to download has been updated.
Also, Harmen asked an interesting question about nested elements with the title attribute. It didn’t work initially, but now I’ve updated the GLT JavaScript file with support for that as well.
I did some thinking how to address the faulty technical implementation in IE to display values in the alt attribute as a tooltip, and if I should suppress it on images that have a title attribute as well. I decided to implement a setting for it and then it’s up to you to choose. The GLT JavaScript file now contains one more setting: suppressAltTooltipsInIE : true.
I’ve done a very minor change to the event handling to cover up for a bug in IE’s garbage collector (something I hear will be addressed automatically in IE 7). In 99,9% of the cases you won’t notice any difference, but if you use it in a very advanced web site/web application it might make things better and less resource intensive.
Just as Chris commented, the script didn’t consider if the custom tooltip would disappear if it was positioned too far to the right. It is now updated with a fix for this.
A side-effect happened in Firefox when using GLT for any link; the status text wasn’t shown in the web browser status field. This issue has now been addressed.
Just as Jordan Ambra pointed out to me, there were cases when you could mouse out from the element just when the GLT element was shown, and making it stick and not fade out. This was just because of a tiny typo by me in the code, but it has now been fixed.
Bob pointed out a typo of me in the code, where the result was that you couldn’t turn off the fading in through the fadeInTitle property. The code has been updated and can be downloaded in the GLT web page.
Added an extra check to prevent any eventual error that occurred when hovering a GLT element in the middle of the loading of the page.
As of lately it seems like I’m giving you a new JavaScript library every second day. But don’t worry, I will be fairly busy in the upcoming months so this one is probably the last one for a while. 🙂
Anyway, tooltips in a web page, maybe more commonly known as what will be displayed when using the title attribute on an element, have some shortcomings that I wanted to address.
I could just stack argument after argument why using frames when designing a web page is a bad idea, but frankly, I’m too lazy to do it once again. Let’s turn this around:
Why would anyone see the need to use frames nowadays?
I use a PC with Windows at work and a Mac with Mac OS X at home and I like them both. They each have their distinct benefits but also shortcomings. What does annoy me in the computer market is when one company, no matter which company it is, gets such a monopoly that it can basically do or produce anything and the end users have no choice but to happily get into line and accept it.
So, therefore I urge: Let Mac OS X Free!
I’ve done a very minor change to the event handling to cover up for a bug in IE’s garbage collector (something I hear will be addressed automatically in IE 7). In 99,9% of the cases you won’t notice any difference, but if you use it in a very advanced web site/web application it might make things better and less resource intensive.
When I added the lightbox-like feature to JaS I was talking to my friend Teddy Zetterlund explaining how it worked. His response was:
I know a lot of situations that this could be useful in then.
I agreed with him and have now created the mother of all focusing scripts: FaT – Focus At This! 🙂
A friend of mine using JaS said that he sometimes had the scenario that he wanted to load all the images but then preload a certain tag, hence initially hiding all the pictures that doesn’t match that criteria. I though it was a simple task so I created an add-on script for those interested.
Lately, and especially evident in the beginning of the summer after the @media conference, people proclaimed that the war of web standards is won and that we should move on to focus on other things. Let me please say that the war is so far from over.
Have you ever had the need/wish for WordPress to deliver HTML instead of XHTML in your blog? And if yes, then having no idea how to control the default XHTML tags generated in comments and its likes? Fret no more!
It seems likely that at the end of 2006 Internet Explorer 7 will be released. First, let me say that the IE team has undoubtedly done some great work when it comes to fixing the numerous flaws in IE 6 as well as adding a heap of new CSS support (more detailed in Details on our CSS changes for IE7), although I think it’s a joke that display:table still isn’t supported.
But, my main question is: is catching up good enough?
After doing some extensive testing, due to some error reports that the overlay layer didn’t cover all parts of the web page if it had a scroll, I’ve now updated the script to take that into consideration as well. A positive effect of this is that, during a slideshow, it will automatically adapt the overlay size if the user resizes the web browser window or scrolls within it.
Also, one of the biggest upsides to this is that I’ve eliminated the need to add CSS specifically for Internet Explorer to handle overflow scenarios. The CSS code below has been updated accordingly.
So, I sincerely ask of you to download the example package (ZIP file link) to get this important fix, or if you already have your own custom CSS, to re-download the JaS JavaScript file and simply replace your current one.
Looking at nice features like Lightbox JS and what my friends at Particletree did with Lightbox Gone Wild!, I found it to be a given to add this functionality to JaS – JavaScript Slides. Now the image view, as well as the slideshow feature, supports it in different combinations.
Microsoft has just publicly announced Zune, their iPod competitor. And, surprisingly enough, at least it doesn’t look as tacky as I expected. According to TechCrunch in Zune is Here:
The Zune has 802.11 networking built in and you can send a song to your friend for three days or three plays…
If you’re obsessed with using the keyboard instead of the mouse as much as possible, and you have chosen to use the best web browser out there, Firefox, then Smart Keywords is the feature that will make your day and save you a lot of time!
Remember something called Geek Meet? People with a sincere interest in web development, always up for learning more and hanging out with like-minded? Well, fret no more! It’s time again! 🙂
I remember September 11th 2001 as if it were yesterday. I was sitting in the office working as usual when one of my colleagues sent me a link over IM to a Swedish news web page. I clicked the link but didn’t get in since the web site failed to respond. I went over to his desk and asked what it was all about.
A plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.
For those of you using the very flexible AJAX-S for slideshows, I have now created a little add-on script to hide the footer and only showing it when moving your mouse pointer over it.
For many web developers, CSS means numerous of ways to create flexible designs, control fonts in a powerful manner and a central location for controlling the entire look of your web site.
Unfortunately, CSS is far from perfect so I thought I’d list the most common disappointments I have, given the current state of CSS support, and I will also go a little into what your options are and what the future holds.
Today Steve Irwin was fatally wounded by a stingray barb today, and passed away. He was known to most people as the Crocodile Hunter and has influenced an entire world with his work with animals.
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(Note: I’ve used my fair share of left-cols, so this is no way meant to be elitistic.)
We’ve all thought that CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets and that’s all it is to it, but apparently that’s far from the truth. The other day I found another meaning, perhaps the true one, that I think applies to me…