Posted in JavaScript/jQuery, Usability on Sep 20th, 2011
Version 1.4 of the Before/After plugin has been released with a new feature – keyboard navigation. Now you can use your left and right arrow keys to move the image divider. By default this option has been disabled. There are actually two new option parameters, enableKeyboard and keypressAmount. The first, enableKeyboard, can be set to [...]
Posted in JavaScript/jQuery, Usability on Sep 15th, 2011
Sometimes you may not be able to pre-load the images you’re using with the before/after plugin. In that situation you may want to give your visitors some indication that the images are loading so that they’re not left scratching their heads wondering if there’s a problem. Fortunately with a little jQuery and CSS you can [...]
Posted in JavaScript/jQuery, Usability on Aug 8th, 2011
jQuery Page Carousel Plugin About a year ago I was asked to create a plugin that allowed visitors to navigate a series of web pages without having to ever actually leave one page. What I came up with I’m calling the Page Carousel plugin. The Page Carousel allows you to take an unordered list and [...]
Posted in JavaScript/jQuery, Usability on Aug 2nd, 2011
You may have heard the term “namespace” and had a vague idea (or no idea whatsoever) what it referred to. A namespace is a coding term that pops up from time to time as something you should probably know about but don’t have to get through your day. Knowing when to use a namespace is [...]
Posted in Usability on Jul 7th, 2011
It’s been what, like three weeks now and you still haven’t updated the toolbar to work with Firefox 5? What’s the deal? Update (July 22, 2011): This kinda pisses me off. Apparently Google is dropping support for the Google Toolbar in Firefox 5+ (“Therefore, while Google Toolbar for Firefox works on versions up to and [...]