http://www.vulgarisoip.com CTO during the week, CBO during the weekend Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:05:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while since my last post, and I've got a lot of great ideas to get down on blog, but first I'd like to announce a new version of jquery.suggest. Some new features include: Improved cross-browser compatibility (tested to work the same across Firefox/Safari/IE6/IE7) Cache bug has been fixed that ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/08/06/jquerysuggest-11/ I've updated my PHP 4 version of minify which you can download here. This new version now supports external linking to minified JavaScript and CSS through the use of <link> and <script> tags. You can find instructions on implementing this method here, it's the same as standard minify. http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/07/11/updated-minify-library-for-php-4/ Get it while it's hot. Can't wait to update all my sites.  http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/07/01/jquery-113-is-out/ Update 2: After reading Peter-Paul Koch's amazing book on Javascript, I've come to realize that the offset problem with the drop down in IE is probably caused by the use of em's on padding/margins of autocomplete's offsetParents. Update 1: I realize the drop down is slightly off in IE 6&7, ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/06/29/jquerysuggest-an-alternative-jquery-based-autocomplete-library/ A common AJAX technique is to return straight HTML and use the innerHTML element attribute to insert it into the DOM. Unfortunately, JavaScript inserted into the DOM this way (inside a <script> tag) will not execute in all browsers. I found this out when trying to implement a dynamically changing PlotKit ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/06/22/execute-javascript-injected-using-innerhtml-attribute-even-with-safari/ First off, I have to say that most of the work that went into this project was already done for me by someone named rgrove. You can find the original (PHP 5) version of Minify here. All I've done is convert the code to run on servers still using PHP ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/06/21/minify-your-external-javascript-and-css-with-php/ Update (June 21, 2007): I've deleted the links to the jQuery.focus() plugin and jQuery page (for now). You'll find BlockUI to be a MUCH better and MORE complete jQuery solution. I've removed jQuery.focus() out of humility. If you look in the new jQuery tab you'll see my first released plugin for ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/02/22/jquery-focus-plugin-available/ To understand my new found infatuation with jQuery, I'd like to begin with a story about the problem that led to this posting. The :hover pseudo-selector is one of the most powerful tools when working with a CSS compliant browser. With it, you can create rollovers, menus and other visual tricks ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/01/29/scripting-with-jquery-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-dom/ Due to the amount of requests emailed to me for working source code I have now posted the modified PHPMailer I use in my own projects. Click here to download the library. Here's an example of how to use the code: require_once('/phpgmailer/class.phpgmailer.php'); $mail = new PHPGMailer(); $mail->Username = 'user@domain.com'; $mail->Password = 'password'; $mail->From = ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2006/10/13/update-send-email-with-php-and-gmail-hosted-for-your-domain/ This morning a client that I'm currently developing for called me to inform me that they needed to use their web application immediately. I had to host it for them myself as they didn't have their own server, but I was already working on another project that I was already ... http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2006/09/19/handling-multiple-web-development-projects-using-vmware/