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When custom attributes conflict with validation

August 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Written by R
I must confess, I am not a validation freak. Semantics and pixel perfection are my primary goals. Forgetting to specify a "type" on a javascript is not the biggest crime. However I went ahead and validated the page I made for this telecom major. A social media campaign microsite which we ...


Simulating the Click Event on Firefox

August 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Written by R
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Explorer")== -1) { // Simulates the click() event for gecko based browsers HTMLElement.prototype.click = function() { var evt = this.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents'); evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, this.ownerDocument.defaultView, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null); this.dispatchEvent(evt); } } Source : Unknown Drop me a line and I will provide credit :)

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OuterHTML snippet

August 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Written by R
Here is a simple snippet that enables OuterHTML in Firefox. if (document.body.__defineGetter__) { if (HTMLElement) { var element = HTMLElement.prototype; ...

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Blogging via the iphone widget

August 1st, 2008 | No Comments | Written by R
This is just great to be able to blog while in your iphone

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Compressor Rater - The Javascript Compression rater.

October 26th, 2007 | No Comments | Written by rama
I like comparisons and especially when a tool takes my input and produces 3 different Step in Compressor Rater it takes the Dojo Shrinker, JSMin and YUI compressors for Javascript and produces a report as well as gives you an option to copy paste the resulting code. More > http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/

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Of Jumping Cows and Energy Domes.

October 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Written by rama
Both Jquery and Mootools are great libraries, however one must win. Is it the Cow or the Dome, find out as I compare both these libraries feature by feature. But why now?, Mootools has just released their 1.2 version which boasts of a HashMap for clientside objects. Jquery has seen a 1.2.1 ...

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The case of lost children - CSS 3 and Why you should care about it.

October 8th, 2007 | No Comments | Written by rama
A while back I had this post about support for CSS3 in IE7. With a growing share of 23% and a mission to make this version automatically available to all users of Windows XP, IE7 still seems to have got it wrong for the developer. The CSS3 frustration continues, for e.g: ...

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Jquery is faster in the Mootools SlickSpeed Test.

October 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment | Written by rama
Mootools has a great speed test for DOM selectors in JS libraries called the "SlickSpeed" test. The results compare "Mootools ", "Prototype " and "Jquery". In the instance that I ran ( I only clicked "Start Tests"!) , Jquery came in first. Jquery is on the third column in the attached ...

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Understanding why Communities are Important.

September 30th, 2007 | No Comments | Written by rama
When you work as part of a large company, there is an overabundance of similar experienced people. While this might appear as competive to many, to some its an opportunity to form a community...

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5 tricks on Jquery.

September 25th, 2007 | No Comments | Written by rama
Jquery is as usual the best you can get with plugins as well as the sheer joy of writing short and sweet. In this post I talk about 5 re-used Jquery snippets across projects. Some of this may not be news to you, but for some it might just make ...

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