jQuery Highlight Plugin | bartaz @ GitHub
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on June 8th, 2009
It will probably not be a big surprise that jQuery Highlight plugin can be used to highlight pieces of text on a page. It’s based on great Highlight plugin by Johann Burkard. To be honest most of the credit should go to him, as all I did was a little refactoring and customisation (so blame me if I broke something).
via jQuery Highlight Plugin | bartaz @ GitHub.
Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8
Finally, this is what many of us web developers have been waiting for (again). Over the next few weeks and months, Internet Explorer 8 will be pushed out over Automatic Updates/Windows Updates to upgrade users running Internet Explorer 6 or 7.
Oh, and just like Internet Explorer 7, 8 is also available completely free, without the requirement for Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). This means that everyone running the latest versions of Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003/8 will be able to update!
Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8. This rollout will start with a narrow audience and expand over time to the entire user base. On Windows XP and Server 2003, the update will be High-Priority. On Windows Vista and Server 2008 it will be Important. via IEBlog : Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8.
IE6 Upgrade Warning – Google Code
I do always like a nice way to stop IE6 from further harming people’s computers. Telling them they should upgrade is but a small service website owners can use to help people upgrade their browser.
The ie6-upgrade-warning is a little script 7.9kb that displays a warning message politely informing the user to upgrade the browser to a newer version links to newest IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome are provided. The webpage is still visible behind a transparent background, but access to it is prevented. The idea is to force users to upgrade from IE6 and avoid the website from a bad reputation that website is not rendering correctly in IE6.
via ie6-upgrade-warning – Google Code.
jQuery Delay Plugin – EvanBot.com
Posted by John in Programming on April 6th, 2009
I’m a big fan of jQuery and for all it’s super awesomeness, it doesn’t yet have a native “delay” method. I went looking for something that could delay some meny actions for me today and fortunately I found someone had written this little plugin 
A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a delay between jQuery functions. This small but very useful plugin that has saved me a lot of time. I haven’t done a lot of testing, but because the plugin is so small and simple (only 212 bytes!) I don’t think I could have missed much! ^^ via jQuery Delay Plugin – EvanBot.com.
jQuery API browser
Posted by John in Programming on February 2nd, 2009
If you use jQuery (or have to deal with jQuery code written by others), a new API browser has been released to coincide with the release of jQuery 1.3
http://api.jquery.com/ features a very nice search indeed, you can type in any of the jQuery functions and the list of results is update in real time. A big plus for me is that there is an offline browser that uses AIR as I often work while traveling and often need to look up some obscure option or method.
And for everyone that wants to know the details about the latest stuff in jQuery 1.3 – NetTuts has an article to tell you Everything You Need to Know About jQuery 1.3
Add-on for an add-on: FireScope
Posted by John in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Programming on January 28th, 2009
What’s the world coming to when we’ve got add-ons for add-ons in Firefox?
This extension comes shortly after the announcement that Sitepoint have put up their JavaScript Reference.
The new extension pulls in information from their reference, at the moment it only works for the HTML and CSS reference, but once the JavaScript reference is more complete we might see that integrated as well.
jQuery 1.3.1 Released
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on January 22nd, 2009
Only a very short time after the initial 1.3.0 release of jQuery – we’re seeing 1.3.1 released to fix a few bugs present in the previous version.
With the 1.3.x releases, the jQuery developers have also decided to stop providing a “packed” version of the script, the reasons cited being performance and compatibility reasons. The minified (and gzipped) version is still available.
CSS Selector Shell Shows You Stuff
Posted by John in CSS, Programming on January 22nd, 2009
The CSS Selector Shell gives you a nice way to find out how the browser that you’re using interpets the CSS given. The shell is a browser-based tool for testing what CSS becomes in different browsers. This could seriously be a big help for debugging problems between browsers, especially when looking at inherited styles. (Found at Ajaxian)
Don’t Click Here – Placing Links in Context
If you’re interested in reading this article, click here. On second thought. Don’t. It’s a common usability problem. Links that don’t mean anything. How are you using links on your website?
Don’t Click Here – Placing Links in Context | Build Internet.
A short article to let us know it’s ok to not tell people to “click here”. If the links are clear enough, the user doesn’t need to be told where to click!
TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6
Chicago (IL) – Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.
TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6.
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