Posts in the JavaScript category
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Quick tip: Making jQuery tabbed content available for users without JavaScript
29 August 2011 by
Most users have JavaScript enabled these days but there may be a small fraction of your website visitors that have JavaScript turned off. In these circumstances, it’s generally accepted good practice to make sure that your website content is available to those users without JavaScript.
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Flowplayer for playing Flash video
04 May 2010 by
If you want to embed Flash video on your website, you could do a lot worse than use Flowplayer which is an open source Flash player.
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Putting Twitter hovercard pop-ups on your website
16 April 2010 by
Twitter has opened its doors a bit more so that you can add its functionality to your website. Its @Anywhere platform allows you to integrate Twitter into your website.
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Easy ways for clients to edit image galleries/slideshows
13 April 2010 by
I have been working on a website where one of the requirements is a JavaScript slideshow and/or an image gallery that the website owner or client could update. It is possible to do this via content management systems like Wordpress or Perch (and many others) but in this case, for various reasons, we had an HTML website, without database, to work with. At the same time, the system had to be really simple. So simple in fact, that all the client has to do is upload images (via FTP perhaps) into the correct folder on the server.
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jQuery: Novice to Ninja from Sitepoint
11 March 2010 by
I am reading a new jQuery book from Sitepoint at the moment. It's called jQuery: Novice to Ninja and it promises to take you from beginner to expert.
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Websites with left and right arrow keyboard navigation
05 March 2010 by
Over the last week or so I have come across several websites that allow users to navigate using the left and right arrow keys. I think this is an interesting approach and I really like this method.
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jQuery links for light reading
10 February 2010 by
Some recent articles on jQuery from around the web.
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Using JavaScript for enhancing CSS support in Internet Explorer
18 January 2010 by
One of the subjects that I have been keeping an eye on recently is the use of JavaScript to enhance support for more advanced CSS methods in Internet Explorer (IE). We all know that, despite some big improvements, Internet Explorer 8 does not support some of the newer CSS properties used by Firefox and Safari, which tend to lead the way in this respect.
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Tooltips and slider JavaScript effects based on jQuery
13 October 2009 by
Used wisely, JavaScript effects can provide that extra Wow! factor to your website. I have been looking at a couple of different scripts recently because they seemed to be just what I wanted for a couple of websites. Both these are based on the jQuery library.
Info: JavaScript adds an extra level of interaction or behaviour to your website and it might be tempting to use scripts like these excessively. However, you should also consider what happens if your web visitors have JavaScript turned off. Is the content still visible? Does the website still provide a useful experience without these effects? See Unobtrusive JavaScript for more information on best practice.
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Multi-column layout with CSS3 (and some JavaScript)
13 July 2009 by
There’s a common newspaper and print layout method where the text of an article is arranged over several columns. This makes the article easer to read and looks quite nice visually. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do this with CSS? Well, in fact this is perfectly possible using the multi-column layout module that is part of the CSS3 specification. Whilst browser support for this is patchy, the module is now approaching candidate recommendation status, and the method can still be implemented using proprietary but well-supported CSS rule prefixes like
mozandwebkitin your style sheets. For browsers that do not support the multi-column layout module in any form, there’s a useful JavaScript solution.