From the monthly archives:

March 2005

Good Friday. Liars.

March 25, 2005

What a mess web development is. What a waste of time it is too.
I have spent the better part of the morning wondering why, when I unhide a DIV and then click on the WYSIWYG editor, Mozilla throws a fatal error and refuses to play anymore. I went through all the logical checks, make sure [...]

Read the full article →

IPB at the movies

March 24, 2005

Another day, another javascript library.
I’ve tidied up my previous javascript and added in permission checks and some XSS protection. I’ve also added in a fancy semi-transparent window for the new PM notification. It’s inpsired by a plug in for Apple’s Mail email application which shows a semi-transparent window with a preview of the email message [...]

Read the full article →

Phew…

March 23, 2005

I’ve finished my "name suggest" box which can be used for anything, anywhere. I wrote it for the PM recipients but I’ve abstracted it so it can be used for anything; template names, forum names – anything.
It took nearly 600 lines of javascript to complete (+ 1 custom XMLHttpRequest library + PHP + HTML) but [...]

Read the full article →

Couldn’t resist it.

March 22, 2005

I couldn’t resist doing a Google style auto-complete using XMLHttpRequest and the most logical place for this is in the personal message "send" form. Typing in the recipients name will show a drop down box of possible matches which is constantly refined as you enter more characters.
Screenshot here.

Read the full article →

I need PHP!

March 21, 2005

I recently blogged about the relatively new XMLHttpRequest functions and how they can enhance the web browsing experience if used correctly.
I’ve used this technology to solve the forum marker quagmire that has plagued most bulletin boards since the dawn of time. Currently, IPB uses a mixture of methods to cobble together some kind of logic [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries