One of the joys of testing with IE8 is the added google time that I get to spend hunting down bugs and solutions. If you find something mesbehaving in Redmond’s browser, then the Internet knows about it and has a fix somewhere. Todays culprit was caused by using jQuery’s fadeIn effect on a div containing …
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While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8. The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built. At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a …
If you use Google Analytics to measure traffic and activity on your website, once you start customizing the tracker code, use the asynchronous tracker, or do more complicated tracking it can be hard to verify that your changes have worked. The asynchronous tracker won’t necessarily emit any js errors and you can’t always waitio see …
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Another viable option for mobile development is to use a framework like Titanium or Phonegap to quickly build out an app using Javascript. I’ve been looking at Titanium a lot lately and digging into its API. Seems like you can build anything short of a game using its API and there’s a real buzz when …
Just when you thought jquery couldn’t get better, the 1.3 release shows drastic performance improvements across a number of benchmarks. That, and the new live event framework, which will make your life easier if you’ve ever dealth with binding and rebinding events (F1 Timetracker & Workload I’m looking at you), are valuable improvements to the …
You learn something new everyday. On SoccerBlogs.net, I’ve always tracked click thrus to gauge which posts represent active stories. Previously, I used to redirect clicks through my own url and then redirect to the final destination. This was a little slower for users, and I think its not super kosher from google’s point of view. …
Version 1.1 of my my preferred javascript library, jQuery, was released today. They have a great motto – “write less, do more” and as far as I can tell, they live up to it. The release notes claim speed improvements of 10-20x for selectors over those in 1.0.4. The release includes some interesting new features …
Andres at Web 2.0 Technologies has a very informative post about how to use object oriented techniques to implement a robust event broadcasting and listening in javascript. Follow his advise an dmake your code more reusable. What do you want to invoke when the checkbox object changes state? If you’re programming it in a non-reusable …
Couldn’t find one so whipped one up myself. Tested on Firefox and I suspect it won’t work in Safari. For some reason I can’t get the new window to get focus(). This bit of javascript code grabs whatever you have selected (preferable an address) and displays it in google maps. Drag this Google Maps linksto …