Entries tagged ‘JavaScript’

Advice for Budding Web Developers

The following guide came about after I was tasked with transferring my Web Development expertise into two VB developer colleagues. No mean feat in the one month I have left at my current place of work. Ultimately it’s possibly a futile task, but it’s worth a shot.
Web Development is not just collection of related [...]

An IE7 Bug That Returns MSIE 6.0 User Agent String

IE7, don’t you just love it? What they gave us with one had in terms of CSS actually sort of working they took away with some of the stupidest niggly little bugs ever. Here’s another potentially large one i’m stumbled right into recently.
If your user agent string is more than 260 characters in length then [...]

jQuery ui.tabs, Themeroller and .ui-tabs-nav-item

There currently an inconsistency between the jQuery UI tabs plugin and the CSS generated by Themeroller

The CSS includes rules for “.ui-tabs-nav-item” but these classes are never added to the list items by the plugin. Because they are unnecessary.
Simply changing the rules to “.ui-tabs-nav li” they way they should be brings it all into line again. [...]

jQuery.getScript() does not cache

It occurred to me today that when using jQuery’s handy little .getScript method that each script request is appended by a timestamp appended to the querystring. This is great. A lot of the time this is exactly what you want as it ensures that no browser will ever serve up it’s own cache in preference [...]

Publish / Subscribe With jQuery

With a view to writing a jQuery UI integrated with the offline functionality of Google Gears i’ve been toying with some code to poll for network connection status using jQuery.
The Network Detection Object
The basic premise is very simple. We create an instance of a network detection object which will poll a URL at regular intervals. [...]