Posts tagged ‘jQuery’
Comparing and cloning objects in JavaScript
Posted Friday, July 23rd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, web design and development
Two simple functions for comparing and cloning JavaScript objects without requiring a framework like jQuery.
Rounded corners on images using CSS3
Posted Friday, April 2nd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, jQuery, MooTools, progressive enhancement, web design and development
Most browsers do not allow images to be cropped using CSS3′s border-radius. Tim Van Damme recently posted a workaround for this issue. Here’s a MooTools script that automates Tim’s workaround yet degrades gracefully when JavaScript is disabled.
A new removeClasses utility for MooTools
Posted Saturday, March 13th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, jQuery, MooTools, web design and development
MooTools’ removeClass utility will only work if the classes you want to remove are listed in the same order as the target element’s className property. Here’s a new removeClasses utility that fixes this shortcoming. A framework-neutral version is also provided.
CustomInput Class: Accessible, Custom-Styled Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
Posted Thursday, March 11th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags accessibility, CSS, How-to, interface design, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, jQuery, MooTools, web design and development
I’m currently working on a new quiz system at work, and decided I’d incorporate Filament’s wonderful stylized checkboxes and radio buttons into my project, which meant it was time to roll up my sleeves and code me some Moo.
Dealing with Internet Explorer in your JavaScript Code
Posted Tuesday, November 25th, 2008.
Filed under General, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, standards, web browsers
It’s almost the end of 2008, and thanks to the hard work of web standardistas, browser vendors, and JavaScript framework developers, cross-browser JavaScript code is much less of an issue than it used to be. Even Microsoft is feeling the love — the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 will be a (mostly) clean break from legacy Internet Explorer releases and will behave much more like Firefox, Safari (WebKit) and Opera. …And they rejoiced.
So why is it that when I look under the hood of some recently produced web pages (learning management systems, courses produced by e-learning rapid development tools, general web pages, etc.), the pages’ JavaScript often includes incredibly out-of-date and bad-practice Internet Explorer detection?
Here’s a quick rundown on the dos and don’ts.
