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Accessible tabs UI with jQuery Tools

Mike Badgley — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:14:45 +0000

If you are not familiar with jQuery Tools, I’d suggest you familiarize yourself with them. A helpful clean and small toolkit that acts as a plugin to the popular jQuery library. jQuery Tools allows you to integrate a number of (…)

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Demo: Dynamic Cross-browser Horizontally Fluid Menu

Mike Badgley — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:57:03 +0000

The following is a solution that I came up with create a fluid horizontal navigation structure that met the following requirements: The navigation needed to be completely dynamic and not dependent on an update to a CSS file if items (…)

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Stopping a YouTube video after closing the overlay it’s in with jQuery Tools

Mike Badgley — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:48:29 +0000

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 (…)

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Quick tip when using the Overlay feature of jQuery Tools

Mike Badgley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:15:54 +0000

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 (…)

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Localhost bug with the ShareThis social bookmarking tool

Mike Badgley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:58:26 +0000

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 (…)

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The Perfect (?) Solution for Image Replacement

Mike Badgley — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:37:33 +0000

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, (…)

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Screencast Review: Professional Frontend Engineering

Mike Badgley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:01:10 +0000

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 (…)

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Doug Crockford on AJAX Performance

Mike Badgley — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:59:05 +0000

Watched an interesting screencast yesterday on AJAX Performance, by Doug Crockford. This was one of a series of videos that he has produced on the subject and from what I’ve seen so far, I plan on watching the rest of (…)

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Using JSON with a callback parameter

Mike Badgley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:56:45 +0000

While working on a Social Media News Release (SMNR) for Doritos on Friday, I found out a very useful parameter to use when making JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) calls to a remote web service, which just happened to be YouTube, (…)

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