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I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
So again, I show up late to the party. IE7 is already out, but my target customers are still using IE6. So today, boys and girls, we’re going to discover the magical world of using I-Frame shims to hide those bleeding heart select boxes from showing through our layered elements. Typically, when creating an I-Frame [...]
Twitter is Polluting the Search Space.
I don’t have a problem with Twitter. I can ignore the “internet enthusiasts” that go crazy over a simple CRUD/database entertainment website, thinly veild as the next big social evolution of the internet. I can’t help but feel that this is just a text-based version of the web-cam phase that the internet went through approximately [...]
JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug
Download FirebugCodeCoverage-0.1.xpi Recently, I’ve become interested in client side automated testing tools. When I found the Selenium plug-in for Firefox, I was blown away. I can record actions in my browser and play them back! No more manual testing of JavaScript code! Researching a little bit more about automated testing tools led to the discovery [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Projects, Web Browsers Tagged Code Coverage, Firebug, Firefox, Selenium 22 Comments
Google Using YUI Grids CSS
Head over to the Google Homepage. Log In using your Google Account. Make sure you’re at your Personalized Homepage. Take a look at the source CSS file ig.css included on the page. There are a few peculiar lines of code that I recognized from another source, the Yahoo User Interface Grids CSS file. Yahoo has [...]
Problems with YUI DataTable
If you have read anything I’ve written before or know me at all, you know that my go-to JavaScript library is the one and only YUI. So obviously, when I was looking around for a Grid (or as YUI jargon goes, a DataTable), naturally I’m going to turn to YUI compatible components. First, I looked [...]
YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work