On a recent project, I traveled to the depths of hell and came out alive. Here’s how it went down… The initial task wasn’t all that unique or difficult. We were to add a few videos (most hosted on YouTube, with a couple self-hosted) that would open in a lightbox-style popup when the thumbnails were [...]
Tags: flash, ie6, javascript, mootools, multibox
Imagine if you will, a page with a significant amount of dynamic page elements. For instance, a slide-out panel containing a number of ‘panes’ containing topical information on various ‘factors’. Let’s assume that once this slide-out is open, we wish the user to be able to jump from factor to factor (similar to a slideshow) [...]
Tags: google-analytics, html5, javascript, jquery, mootools
@ikeif recently tweeted a request for some JavaScript best practices. Rather than simply reply to him, I thought I’d post them here and beat him to the blog-post-punch. I’m not going to expand much on any of these, although any discussion that arises will likely spawn its own post. These are in no particular order [...]
Tags: javascript
As a result of some of the discussion following from my post on my new jQuery plugin, jQuery.Firebug I’m soliciting feedback for its desired behavior. Example: $(‘.setA’).log(); $(‘.setB’).log(“some”, “information”); $(‘.setC’).log(“title attribute is: “, “.attr(‘title’)”); Some explanation. The log method follows the same rules as the Firebug console.log method. It can take 0 or more arguments [...]
Tags: debugging, firebug, javascript, jquery
I have been sitting on my latest jQuery plugin for some time now. Although I realize that the code is not yet of production quality and there are certainly bugs and features that remain to be addressed, I’ve decided that I should at least release this plugin to the wild. At the very least, I [...]
Tags: debugging, firebug, javascript, jquery
