Trent Richardson

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Archive for May, 2009

Welcome jQuery Impromptu 2.6

Without further delay I am pleased to present to you jQuery Impromptu 2.6. I’ve implemented a few features requested by users, and they were all much needed. The new features include:

Fix iframe to work better with secure sites
Constrain tabs to within prompt. No more tabing onto the page beneath the prompt
Option to [...]

jQuery Impromptu 2.6 Todos

I’ve been twiddling with the next version of Impromptu and just wanted to get some feedback on my todo list and see if there are any other good suggestions for the upcoming version. Here’s where I stand so far:

Add <iframe src=”javascript:false;” style=”display:block;position:absolute;z-index:-1;” similar to bgiframe.
Keep from tabbing/clicking outside of the prompt. BlockUI seems [...]

Simple Templates with jQuery

Well this post isn’t rocket science, but we all have seen the time where it would be nice to have some sort of templating when creating html with javascript. Well unless you need looks and conditions there’s a pretty simple solution. Within your html string denote things you need to replace with “{myvar}”. [...]

Mozilla Fennec in Jaunty 9.04

While messing around with some mobile web development I decided to check Synaptic for “mobile browsers”. Sure enough the results were pleasing. Topping the list was Mozilla Fennec, the new mobile version of Firefox. Right away I installed and I now have a mobile emulator for Fennec right on my desktop. [...]

After a while of tinkering with Jaunty, Wine, and IES4Linux, I finally discovered what was wrong. First if you follow these directions it will install IE6. However, my problem was that I get a “permission denied” error on creating a symbolic link into my home/bin folder. IE6 is actually all there, its [...]