The following is fixing the wrong problem, but often technology is easier than people problems. $WORK removed the ability to use plugins with Chrome without having to go through a bureaucratic process lasting weeks. One tool I’ve found useful is the ability to copy the title and link of a page to the clipboard and …
Category Archive: web
Feb 11
Javascript with CSS Sprites Animation
One of the issues with gif animations is being able to stop and start them at will. This post examines a method of using javascript to control CSS Background Sprites for Animation.
Feb 05
Web Based Portable mysql tool suite
Are you limited in what software you can use at work? This article details how to have a web based tool suite for mysql. It currently has the following tools: AjaxMyTop — a php implementation of mytop (think top for mysql) which runs in a browser. rbdb — a phpmyadmin work-alike in progress. It’s the …
Dec 02
The “A” stands for Asynchronous
So, I have a piece of code which goes out and updates a list. I’m using Ajax.Updater from Prototype.js, to get data back from the server. In my javascript, however, I’m immediately after kicking off the Ajax.Updater, doing processing based on the results from the update. And they’re out of sync, of course. It just …
Aug 28
CSS “width” gotcha
I found out something interesting today. Per the W3C, the total “width” that a block element uses is: If ‘left’ or ‘right’ are given as ‘auto’, their computed value is 0. The following constraints must hold between the other properties: ‘margin-left’ + ‘border-left-width’ + ‘padding-left’ + ‘width’ + ‘padding-right’ + ‘border-right-width’ + ‘margin-right’ = width …
Aug 13
Drag-n-drop
Despite reports to the contrary, scriptaculous sortables do not work inside a table, nor a tbody. (as of rails 2.1)
