under the category of the simplest thing that will actual work, I wanted to have one of those nice animate swilling icons running after the user hit the submit button so they knew that something was really happening.
The core code to this is very simple, using jQuery, just have a hidden image tag [...]
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May 28
Jeffery To’s Show Short Link GreaseMonkey Script displays an existing short link for the current page (in the bottom left corner of the window), taking advantage of the short link microFormat. Flickr, YouTube, TechCrunch and all WordPress blogs already use the rel=”shortlink” mircoFormat. Nice!
Clarify Your Story Excerpt is a set of questions will [...]
A frequent need in building web site application is to have users select one value and then, based on that value, select another value. Real world needs for related values might be : Select a Country and then State or Province; Select a Car Manufacture and then a Car Model. Generically it’s about [...]
This was the week for MESH and MESH U,which is a Toronto based conference which looks at “The Web” and how it is affecting the media, marketing, business and society as a whole. Mesh is in its 5th year and Mesh U (which is a more focused one for the on design, development and [...]
This is the result of a couple of conversations I’ve had with small shop keepers. They may use some web technologies outside of their business for personal use : ebay, facebook, email, a few e-commerce sites. They may a iPod or smart phone. They may have a one page website for the [...]
By Ian | February 23, 2010
Part 2.
Six Months ago I declared One Year to Go on the IE 6 Deathwatch
In the beginning of this year it was disclosed that Google (as well as and 20+ other companies) had been the victim of Chinese cyber attack, attackers called the operation “Aurora” . Microsoft had admitted that Explorer was used [...]
By Ian | February 19, 2010
Or now to lose the rest of one’s limited hair …. I’ve come across a “doesn’t work as expect” issue while working in Prototype 1.6.0.2 JavaScript framework (”Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications” for sure!)
1$(’someIdName’).parentNode.childElements()
works fine in FireFox (v3) but not in Internet Explorer ( v6), in particular it seems [...]
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By Ian | January 28, 2010
I’ve released a GreaseMonkey script Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter User Profiles which you can use to display the Follows in Common and the Follow Rank for a given users profile page and discover how important they are in your Twitter Social Network.
Similar in aim to FaceBooks “friends in common”, adjusted [...]
By Ian | December 15, 2009
In eating my own dog food I have revised, corrected, improved and fixed the code I posted last week. The biggest changes are related to ensuring that all that cached data does not just accumulate and never gets cleared away.
Values set using the “GM_setValue” function are saved in the Firefox preferences back end and [...]
By Ian | December 9, 2009
GreaseMonkey (Don’t know that GreaseMonkey is the greatest thing since slice bread? See Greasemonkey) has two persistent data function’s, GM_setValue and GM_getValue, which let you set and get values. See Mark Pilgrams excellent Dive Into Greasemonkey : Storing and retrieving persistent data for more details. (even better, go to GreaseSpot and it’s api [...]
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