Huh. So. Parallels. Yeah… So if one were running XP on OSX via Parallels and one were testing some rollovers one might encounter this problem. The problem is that under Coherence mode IE doesn’t seem to actually register mouseover events unless a mouse button is held down - which is both annoying and wrong.
That is, [...]

Categories: javascript · rant

This is a feature I’ve been using for awhile now and it just occurred to me that it was a really great feature. In this day and age where javascript is used to place tons of html it can be a bit of a pain trying to figure out what is going on with your [...]

Categories: firefox · geekfindr · javascript

Just read that Sun is throwing it’s hat into the rich internet application ring with a Java FX offering. Trying to compete with Flash, AJAX and the soon to be Silverlight - it certainly is a crowded ring.
The article suggests that it’ll have a leg up on it’s competitors because there’s a lot of java [...]

Categories: flash · javascript

So, at heart, I’m a backend programmer - when someone tells me they want to have tables sortable by different columns that’s a backend issue. One benefit of that is that it’s easily made bookmarkable so if reports are customizable in any way, it’s easy to bookmark a single configuration. But, if that’s not really [...]

Categories: geekfindr · javascript

One of the requirements of building a web2.0 site is to have rounded corners, square corners are so web1.0. This can be a little bit of a pain in the butt, building the images and putting in the markup to round all your boxes. Fortunately there’s curvyCorners to the rescue!
This is a bit o’ javascript [...]

Categories: geekfindr · javascript · web2.0

So I ran across this blog entry with poll wherein someone waxes lyrical about javascript and relatives. Now, I appreciate many of the things he says about javascript, love that he put in a shoutout to the ternary operator, but javascript as a favourite language? That’s going too far! I like javascript as much as [...]

Categories: javascript

I just put up my latest pipe to find similar postings. The goal is simple, it takes the first few posts of an rss feed, runs them through content analysis and for
each one of those posts it finds the two most recent search results from technorati and publishes that. I wanted to play around with [...]

Categories: javascript · pipes

The goal of this is to have an easy way to load Pipes content onto your site. It’s very configurable, so you can style it to look the way you need it to look and it fails gracefully - it only appears when/if Pipes returns some content. So if pipes is down or the [...]

Categories: feature · javascript · pipes · web2.0

UPDATE! Thanks to kentbrewster.com for showing me the Yahoo Pipes callback feature. With this I was able to write the php mirror file out of the system and have it work purely in js. Please see my latest post with the pure js implementation.
http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/pipejax-pure-javascript-version-yahoo-pipes-to-ajax-bridge/

Categories: javascript · pipes · web2.0

I was perusing Zakas’ blog and came across a post where he wonders aloud at the proliferation of CSS query engines in javascript and why the need for them. His point is that they are innefficient and can easily be replaced using standard getElementById/getElementByTagName or perhaps by XPath queries. All of which is true and [...]

Categories: feature · javascript