Author Archives: Bramus!

“In Firefox 3 you can access the contents of a file input via the files attribute and its items. Each of the items have the following attributes and methods: Attributes: fileSize and fileName. Methods: getAsDataURL, getAsBinary and getAsText”

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Google now offers a cached compressed copies of Prototype, script.aculo.us, jQuery, Mootools and Dojo on its high-speed content distribution network via the AJAX Libraries API. Inclusion can be done directly (viz. <script src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js”></script> or via Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method. Neatest part of google.load() is the smart versioning feature. Very nice!

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Update to a classic javascript function (anno 2005, if not earlier) in order to take advantage of the native getElementsByClassName function or XPATH (if available, with fallback mechanisms in place) 🙂

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Now this I did not know, it’s possible to get static versions of Google Maps maps, with markers and all you want. Mike Tuupola covers it very nicely! *Droolio*

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The title is a bit misleading, yet these 2 new CSS features in Firefox 3 (amongst the other CSS improvements) are more than welcome!

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Firebug 1.2 has been released in beta! Too bad the alpha version I was running (1.2a30X) didn’t notify me automagically. Ah, at least one can install it manually 😉

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Alice by Pogo is great! 90% of it are samples from Alice in Wonderland. Genious, and it sounds nice too (reminds me a bit of Blockhead’s Music By Cavelight)! Go watch, or go download 😉 (via)

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Looks like the 1.2.4 build (released yesterday) was bad (as in missing all new features and throwing exceptions). Therefore jQuery 1.2.5 has been released 🙂

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Ah, definately need to read this one carefully: “The method chaining technique was made popular in several libraries, but none more so than jQuery. In this straightforward tutorial, I will show you how to implement method chaining with little effort.”

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Version 1.1.6 of this very handy Firefox Extension has been released, adding support for Firefox 3 as well as fixing some minor issues. Doesn’t show up in the autoupdate, yet you can download it manually over at its home/projectpage 😉

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