Fixing Common CSS Issues In IE6 and IE7
Filed under CSS, HTML, Javascript
As it turns out, Microsoft really doesn’t care about web standards at all. It has taken them way too many years to adopt the basics of CSS2 correctly. Now they are trying to expand that with IE8. However, developers still have to deal with the outdated IE6 and IE7. Using min-width is completely pointless unless your user base only uses good browsers. More…
Quickly Creating Javascript Tooltips
Filed under CSS, HTML, Javascript
I’ve noticed that a lot of sites do not use tooltips as much as they should. There are many places on a site where tooltips would really be nice. One example of using them correctly is TheSixtyOne. They use a nice tooltip when you are about to bump a song up. It quickly lets you know how many points it will cost and how many times you have bumped it. This post will hopefully inspire at least one of you to use tooltips more often.
The solution I have decided to use is UniTip from Unit Interactive. I believe they have the best solution to quickly setting up tooltips. Download the zip they provide and we should be ready to go.
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New Look, Same Greatness
I decided that the old theme was too dark after getting a few messages about it. Hopefully this one will suit everyone. As you can tell, it is very simplistic. If you have any comments about this one, let me know right away. Oh and this was created completely by me, no pre-made themes this time.
An Alternate Way To Bypass Javascript’s Same-Origin Policy
Filed under HTML, Javascript
If you have worked with AJAX at all, you know that there is this thing called the Same-Origin policy which makes it nearly impossible to send AJAX requests to 3rd party domains. There are workarounds such as going through a proxy. I don’t like that and think it’s messy. However, sometimes it’s the only way to go about getting the job done. This post is not about going through a proxy, instead, it is about using a little trick I learned from Yahoo. More…
Ajax Username Validation with The Most Popular JS Frameworks
Filed under HTML, Javascript, PHP
It seems like every site these days uses some form of Ajax to validate form fields. One thing I cannot stand is websites that do not use Ajax to check usernames (or other data) as you type. Because a lot of sites are lacking this one feature, I thought it would be nice to throw together a few examples of how to do it correctly with the most popular of JS frameworks. More…