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Archive for December, 2007

I was waiting on the day when jQuery would have a plotting plugin. Wait no longer! Flot is now on the scene. With the easy jQuery syntax I’m sure it will win the hearts of plotting programmers everywhere: $.plot($(“#placeholder”), data, options); Now I just need to find somewhere to use it!

Submitting Forms with No Action

Not sure if many people have discovered that you can actually submit forms with a blank action attribute. What this will do is submit to the same page(url variables and all). This is very useful if you’re a copy paste coder or need the flexibility of renaming files and not screwing up the action attribute. [...]

Variable Columns with CSS

Nearly every website these days have columns. Since we have grown out of the old table days and into this new era of CSS we tend to over think certain things like how to create two columns side by side which can vary in height, but still appear to be the same height. The solution [...]