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Did I mention that our new website launched? Primal Screen website (100% of code and 75% of design by yours truly). Oh, and I’ll never write another website in that bloated carcass of a useable PHP framework: Zend Framework. My … Continue reading
Posted in Actionscript/Flash, CodeIgniter, HTML/CSS, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Zend
Tagged CSS, html, html5, javascript, jquery, js, primal, primalscreen, screen, zend
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I’m developing an iPhone app using the PhoneGap library, which lets you write your app as if it were a website. That means any UI transitions or animations have to be written the way you would for any modern website … Continue reading
Internet Explorer does a pretty lousy job of displaying fonts anyway, especially fonts from all those new we font websites such as TypeKit (who I strongly recommend). But when you use, say, jQuery’s fadeIn() effect like this $(“.fadeThisGuy”).fadeIn(); … type … Continue reading
Posted in HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery
Tagged @font-face, animate, crappy, CSS, fade, filters, IE, ie8, internet explorer, jquery, opacity, typekit
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EDIT: I guess you don’t need to store the last entry time in a cookie, storing it in a simple js var works fine. I’ve updated the code to reflect this. EDIT2: If your server isn’t doing a good job … Continue reading
I recently built a project gallery for Primal Screen’s new website (not live yet). Instead of having the traditional < 1 2 3 4 5 > pagination setup, we decided to take a leap forward into the the world of … Continue reading
Posted in HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery
Tagged ajax, async, gallery, javascript, jquery, load, post, scroll, thumbnails
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If you need to know the exact x and y positioning of any element on your page (relative to the viewport), use jQuery like this. var x = $(“#myElement”).offset().left; var y = $(“#myElement”).offset().top; Then you can do stuff like this … Continue reading
Posted in HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery
Tagged javascript, jquery, offset, position, positioning, scrollleft, scrolltop
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Keep in mind that some browsers don’t let jQuery know about certain key presses. For example, Chrome doesn’t send the event for keyCode 27 (escape), but Safari does. $(document).keypress(function(e) { if (e.keyCode == 13) { alert(“You pressed Enter!”); } }); … Continue reading
Posted in HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery
Tagged char code, charcode, detect, javascript, jquery, key, keyCode, keydown, keypress, keystroke, onkeypress
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In my original post I mentioned how one can use the get() function in jQuery to gather up all the selected DOM elements and put them in an Array, like so: var stuffArray = $(“.stuff”).get(); Well here’s another way to do … Continue reading
I have a javascript/jQuery ajax function that tries to post some data to a URL in my CodeIgniter installation, and it fails. Looking at the console it gives me this message XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.DOMAIN.com/chris/calendar/async/update/assignment/325. Origin http://DOMAIN.com is not allowed … Continue reading
Posted in CodeIgniter, HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP
Tagged Access-Control-Allow-Origin, ajax, codeigniter, headers, javascript, jquery, load, php, XMLHttpRequest
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I was trying to use jQuery-UI’s awesome resizable function on a new web app I’m developing, and it turns out that it doesn’t play nicely with ems. At least it’s grid options don’t. Anyway, I found the need to convert … Continue reading