Category Archives: JavaScript

Advanced button theming on jQuery UI Dialog

By Drew | Published: June 10, 2010
There is a very annoying bugfeature that I have found when using jQueryUI. It’s not the themes, they work great, in fact, they are the best thing since sliced bread. But in a ‘Cupertino.esc’ way, they provide too much simplicity over the functionality that I require. This post aims to solve that in a progressive [...]
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jQuery UI Dialog Accessibility

By Drew | Published: February 25, 2010
jQuery UI is an amazing product. It’s not because it offers the best features, or that it offers the best solution, it’s that it offers a large degree of support for years to come. Which is saying a lot for something that is nothing more than JavaScript. It’s certainly something that many enterprises have begun [...]
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Usability and a Simple JavaScript hovering menu

By Drew | Published: December 5, 2009
Many web developers ask ‘what is usability?’.  This is one of those topics that I can explain, but it may be easier to demonstrate. My this experiences have led to some principles; one of them is that if I’m going to build it, it must be usable.   Unfortunately, many sites that I like, that tout [...]
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Scribd and Slide mode : Why is my height wrong?

By Drew | Published: July 29, 2009
While recently using Scribd‘s services, I came across a very nasty bug, and a nice clean fix.  Scribd allows developers to tap into a great, but somewhat basic API.  One of these settings allows a developer to set a default ‘mode’ before the API then builds the flash calls necessary to display the document.  The [...]
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