Took my first look at ZeroClipboard the other week and I have to say I like it a lot.
So, what is it? It’s a small (important), free (very important) and cross-browser (very, very important) library which uses an invisible Adobe Flash movie and JavaScript interface that lets you easily copy text from your website to the clipboard. Continue reading →
So for this post I originally thought that I would just list all the main desktop based browsers and provide a series of steps detailing how to disable JavaScript within them.
But then I got thinking why don’t you create a single point of reference site for this instead of a blog post. So that’s what I did and last night I launched disablejavascript.com. Continue reading →
One of the requirements for a project I have been working on lately is that paging of data is not allowed. The solution so far had been just to output all the records to a GridView control which was fine until the data behind the application started to grow. Once where only 50, 100, 200 records were being written out we are now getting 1000+ which, as you might expect, was not ideal for page rendering.
So I’ve looked at introducing paging back into the project but in an infinite scrolling capacity. Continue reading →
I’m currently working on an existing website for a client and one of the requirements I’ve been given is to place an instance of a Google Map within a Microsoft AJAX Toolkit tab container.
This was easy enough but during testing I noticed that in some cases when I moved away from the page and then returned to it, the map was only displaying in the top left of it’s container div. Upon closer examination I found out that the only time this was happening was when the active tab index of the AJAX tab container was being set in code behind Continue reading →
From time to time you may want to change the source of an image based on a user’s interaction with your web form.
Below is a simple way of achieving this result using jQuery:
To start with I’ve created an image tag. Continue reading →