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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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jQuery Dialog Shadow Issues.

By Drew | Published: March 1, 2009
While working on a dialog in the new jQuery UI 1.6rc6.  I have come accross an issue. If you were to open a dialog, and then dynamically change the content in the dialog, the shadow border will not resize.  The problem is, the code does not ‘know’ the box is larger, and is not able [...]
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