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Category Archives: javascript
Use your own short domain while waiting for BitLy Pro
If you’ve checked out BitLy Pro, you’re probably pretty excited like I am. I saw it and immediately registered saray.me for a short URL. When I went to sign up, I found it was still in a queue system where … Continue reading
Branding your Tweets using @anywhere tweetbox
With Twitter’s new @anywhere features, it’s now possible to brand your tweets from your own web page. While I still like using Tweetdeck or Seesmic for my actual interaction on twitter, I have started tweeting a bit from my own … Continue reading
Fixing c:\fakepath in filestyle jquery plugin
The other day I ran across an issue with the FileStyle jquery plugin. Whenever a new file was chosen, windows and Internet Explorer would put c:\fakepath\ before the filename. Turns out its not FileStyle’s issue – but a security feature … Continue reading
Javascript and CSS Compression and Cache
I’ve been researching caching and compression techniques for my external resources for some time. My first design of JEMDiary was very greedy with HTTP connections. Couple that with having a less-than-perfect host (Dreamhost bleh…), users could feel the burn. I … Continue reading
Making Friendly Javascript Errors – Client and Server
The more I look at my code I wrote in my earlier posts about the unknown _popupControl() function and the Javascript Error Handler, I see opportunities to leverage these errors into useful user interactions. Doing a service for your visitor … Continue reading
Using Google Analytics Asynchronously
I came across the following link on google’s code pages: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html It basically details the asynchronous loading of google analytics. I found this to be a very cool addition to an already powerful package that I rely on. However, one … Continue reading
document.URL vs document.location.href
When reviewing some javascript security ideas, I came across the document.URL property. Turns out that my normal way of retrieving the location (document.location.href) is both a getter and a setter. The document.URL is just a getter. Check it out with … Continue reading
Javascript Snow Fall with buildup
Mr. Skowron (his business) was working on a flash animation for a client that had a snow fall. What really irked me about the end result, was two things. a) it was in flash b) the snow didn’t build up … Continue reading
Auto Failover for CDN based Javascript
Using my javascript error reporter code helps me get a better understanding of what my clients are experiencing when visiting my website. One thing I did notice was the failures from time to time of Google’s CDN based Jquery. To … Continue reading
Printing a small segment of the page using JQuery
Using Yahoo’s Grid Tools, I created a pretty decent page layout. After all this was complete, I needed to generate a printable version of only a portion of the site. This was a particular set of instructions. I decided to … Continue reading