Archive for March, 2008
Wordpress 2.5 Gallery Feature
Testing Wordpress Wordpress 2.5’s new gallery system. It seems to fit well inside my site template by default. So that’s good. I’d rather linked directly to the photo rather than the attachment page so that I can hook thickbox to popup each image directly on the page. There don’t appear to be any options for [...]
jQuery Google Analytics Tracking API Integration (ga.js)
Jason Huck’s gaTracker jQuery plugin allows for unobtrusive integration of the Google Analytics tracker into a page as well as attaching tracking events to each external link, mailto and download. It works seamlessly but it does however currently use the old ‘urchin.js’ which has been superceeded by Google’s new Tracking API (ga.js)
ga.js has all the [...]
XBMC BBC iPlayer Plugin
I’m sure the BBC won’t approve of this but within the last few days an XBMC plugin for the BBC iPlayer has been released for general consumption. Though it’s far from a finished product, it neatly lists and plays the H.264 encoded iPlayer streams designed for the Apple iPhone.
The BBC’s provision of non-DRM MPEG streams [...]
Save The Polaroid. Save The World
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. An understandable move in light of the proliferation of cheap digital compact cameras, but as disastrous move for many Polaroid enthusiasts, on anyone who simply wants to instantly create unique and interesting images.
There looks to be roughly enough stock [...]
jQuery Image Text Replacement: Work In Progress
The JavaScript text replacement on this site is a jQuery Plugin i’ve written as an adaptation of the techniques detailed in Dynamic Text Replacement by Stewart Rosenberger in A List Apart Issue 183. The current source of the plugin can be found here. I’m calling it jitr, and you can’t stop me.
Currently it’s a work [...]
How to Stop Wordpress from Pinging Itself
WordPress by default sends pings to your own site every time you link to other posts on your own blog. This appears as a pingback on the post you have linked to, in the comments section. Some people might see this as a feature, allowing you to leave a trail of related posts. I find [...]
Thickbox 3.1 IE7 Positioning Bug
As previously mentioned in this post Thickbox 3.1 is currently broken in many revisions of Internet Explorer 7. Specifically, those revisions who return the substring “MSIE 6.0″ in the user-agent string.
Update: July 2008
This patch fixes a problem caused when certain installations of IE7 are incorrectly identified as IE6 causing the thickbox window to be positioned [...]
jQuery hide/show Safari Bug
I’ve noticed problems in Safari with the hide/show methods of jQuery on and off for quite a while now. Basically they don’t work. Correct me if i’m wrong. This behaviour also extends to the fadeIn/Out methods.
The problem can be circumvented to applying css rules directly to the element(s) in question.
// This will fail in Safari
$(element).hide()
// [...]
Kevin Bacon is a Bastard
Do I need to write something to go with this?
Safari Text Replacement Bug
Credit goes to my homeslice Rick Nunn this afternoon for discovering a fairly major bug in the new JavaScript text replacement I’ve recently developed and implemented on this site.
Of course, had I bothered to test it at all using Safari I might have noticed it myself. But that’s not the point. So, thanks Rickzor.
So, the [...]
