Now there’s a long-winded title for you!
Yes, I’m having problems (IE-specific) when closing an overlay that contains a YouTube video – the movie just keeps on playing in the “background”.
My current setup was pretty simple – basically just pasting the embed code from YouTube into a <div> element that I had designated as being the [...]

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• Tags: API, jQuery Tools, swfobject, YouTube, YouTube JavaScript Player

When using the overlay tool that is offered by jQuery Tools – an excellent JavaScript library that I highly recommend you add to your toolkit – you need to be aware that content that gets displayed within the overlay needs to be positioned within a DOM where it will not be affected by the styling [...]

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• Tags: conflicts, jQuery Tools, overlay

Yesterday afternoon, while adding a social bookmarking tool from ShareThis, we came across the following JavaScript error that just wouldn’t go away, even though we were using the same code snippet as is shown on the ShareThis example pages.
SHARETHIS is null
I don’t know how many different things we tried to get it to work, but [...]

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• Tags: 127.0.0.1, localhost, ShareThis

If you’re like me, you’ve tried every IR trick out there and have found that each “solution” has it’s own set of problems that make it far from a perfect solution.
However, thanks to a smart dude called Paul Young, there may just be a real answer to this problem of image replacement. Paul has developed [...]

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• Tags: images, Paul Young, State Scope

This morning I checked out a screencast by Nate Koechley called Professional Frontend Engineering, provided by YUI Theater. It’s quite lengthy (1:30), but well worth your time. Although nothing ground breaking or exciting is covered, I found it to be a good kick in the pants. Nate goes over the main technologies that we as [...]

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• Tags: JSLint, Nate Koechley, sprite, YUI, YUI Theater