The height(); of bad manners

July 12, 2011

Hello there, to quote Alec Guiness, today i’ve found yet another jQuery inconsistency that needs to be made note of! It would seem that certain version of IE (looks like 8 and 9) along with Opera don’t officially support the jQuery height() function.

Opening a Joomla lightbox, from jQuery generated HTML

November 24, 2010

Today I have been dealing with an infuriating problem concerning joomla lightboxes. Opening them seems to be a little more situation specific than I thought!

onclick vs. onClick

September 9, 2010

Here’s an annoying one for you. It would appear that the world of cross-browser development has ventured into the dangerous and shark filled waters of grammar. More specifically; capitalisation.

Accurately Detecting Browsers in Javascript

September 3, 2010

Another little post to illustrate something that I came across during the 9 to 5. As us technophiles probably know, there is an overwhelming difference in interpretation of web standards between browsers hence a vast range of different visual output from the same codebase. This is annoying for the user they won’t understand why the same page is fine in Firefox but screwy in IE. And for us coders it is a major headache trying to write code that is good everywhere!