Javascript

As a developer, Internet Explorer is the bane of my existence. I’m hoping that this IETester product will help with testing. It still in alpha, but it claims to be a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

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Check out the ie7-js javascript library. It helps with a bunch of css, layout, hover, PNG support, etc.

Project Site - http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

Demos - http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/test/index.html

Ajax Tutorials:

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  Prototype: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/515.cfm


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  Google’s Web Tool Kit: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/


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  Adobe’s Spry: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Spry#Demos


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  Script.aculo.us Examples: http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Demos


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  Moo.fx: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/#download


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  Yahoo’s User Interface Library: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/


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  mHub: http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/mhub/

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This crossbrowser script detects whether or not a popup blocker blocked a window.open.

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 function detectPopupBlocker() { var test = window.open(null,"","width=100,height=100"); try { test.close(); alert("Pop-ups not blocked."); } catch (e) { alert("Pop-ups blocked."); } } // Created by: Simon Willison // http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/05/26/addLoadEvent function addLoadEvent(func) { var oldonload = window.onload; if (typeof window.onload != 'function') { window.onload = func; } else { window.onload = function() { if (oldonload) { oldonload(); } func(); } } } addLoadEvent(detectPopupBlocker); 

I am currently working on project where i am looking to incorporate a series of pages in modal form. These pages will have to accomodate images, flash swfs, and also straight up html. I have been scouring the web for the various options available to aid in this task. I ran accross this link that talks in great depth about the various modal alternatives in the world of html and javascript.

Here are some of the options:

• iBox - http://www.ibegin.com/ibox/ibox-test.html - pretty cool, light weight
• Submodal - http://www.subimage.com/dhtml/subModal/ - old school
• Todd Huss’s submodal - http://gabrito.com/files/subModal/ - improved Submodal
• Prototype Window - http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/index.html - pretty kick ass, but really slow
• Lightbox 2.0 - http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ - The best for just images
• Thickbox - http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ - Nice, uses several JS includes.

All of these have their own strengths/weaknesses, but i am leaning towards using lightbox and ibox…

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For work I had to create a script where by a Flash app calls a javascript method to close the window silently. If you use a normal window.close in a parent window, it will promopt the user in IE and flat out not work in Firefox. Here is the work around. [js]function closeWindow(){ if (navigator.appName==”Netscape”) { window.open(”,’_parent’,”); window.close(); } else if(“Microsoft Internet Explorer”) { // IE window.opener=’x’; window.close(); }else{ // redirect to another page… } }[/js]

The from your html call this method…[…]