This is an interesting one. Basically, there’s a school of thought in SEO that says, you should not apply a display: none CSS property to elements without a valid reason. By valid, it is understood that the hidden content it is somehow interacting with the user based upon events. For example, flyout / foldout menu systems, mouse tips and so… Read more →
This is nothing to do with javascript but I am on a holiday, after all… Bit gutted to find that my otherwise excellent Newport Sandals by Keen have started to pack it in after 2 seasons of tear and wear – it seems they were not as water resistant as I was initially led to believe. Nasty side effect –… Read more →
This is a bit of a sore topic as it is often being asked by people on forums and sites like Stack Overflow. Essentially, javascript does not offer a meaningful way to protect methods from being called directly. Come to think of it, neither does mootools–at least not officially. However, there is a private API (meaning, not supported) that allows… Read more →
I was writing my own re-tweet class and found that I need to crunch URLs on the fly to make them fit within the 140 character limit on Twitter. Come bit.ly and their API, easily accessible via REST and with a JSONP callback interface, just the job for extending Request.JSONP: Request.bitly = new Class({ // shorten urls via bit.ly Extends:… Read more →
I never like having iframes in production sites source codes so when management decided to add the ‘facebook like’ widget thing, I decided to move it outside of the source and into a javascript abstraction. Easiest and most convenient way to do so is via extending the Element prototype in mootools (via Element.implement()): Element.implement({ facebookLike: function(url, options) { var options… Read more →
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