I just found a great post on how to debug Javascript in IE.... Read More

So my earlier drag and resize combination with jQuery never worked out OK due to the fact that Prototype and jQuery are not getting along. Collections of DOM elements won’t work in jQuery which pretty much makes the whole proposition useless.... Read More

What a day yesterday was. Supposedly if you do the whole jQuery no conflict stuff it will be able to play ball with Protoype.js, not true. I wanted to retrieve the value of the currently selected option in a select box with jQuery but for some reason all that monkey patching going on in Prototype just tripped it up.... Read More

Because of all the recent problems with Flash uploading I just opted for uploading in an IFRAME. The IFRAME will reload itself when the upload is finished. When this happens it will trigger a jQuery JavaScript that will update a DIV in the document that contains the frame. It’s really easy, the below example is from a Symfony project so we can’t use the $ sign because it will conflict with the prototype library.... Read More

The other day I needed something to check which version of flash player a user has. It’s all connected to the new problems with uploading that were introduced in Flash player version 10. For some reason the solution we are using needs to know if the player is of version 10 or lower in order to act accordingly. For some reason this will solve a problem with IE6 having a player version lower than 10, don’t ask me why, I’m not the one implementing this. My only mission was to detect version.... Read More

I’ve just taken a look at how a rich interface for creating invitations could be created with jQuery UI’s draggables and resizables.... Read More

Followed by “AJAX in Java alone! JavaScript coding not required. Try it.” states an Adsense ad. ... Read More

Update: I’m not using flash for uploads anymore, XHR is better and more stable if you can require users to use at least Chrome 6 or Firefox 3.6 for instance.... Read More

I think I’ve finally managed to get a handle on prototyping with JavaScript, after all that lisping and jQuerying it turned out to be a formality in the end. I have to thank Steve for finally getting my ass off the couch though.... Read More

I just found myself having encoded HTML within parts of the DOM (don’t ask me why) and I thought it would be cool to be able to parse it and encode/decode the parts where it’s needed. ... Read More