Today we’ll explore a jQuery-powered animation effect that you sometimes see: An object that moves across the screen, morphing into a fixed button when it reaches the opposite side of the browser window. Here’s an example. It’s certainly not a best practice from a UX point of view — most...
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Tag Archives: JavaScript
Responsive design and server-side code
Update This post has been completely re-written to describe a better way of making server-side code responsive. Instead of posting the variable through Ajax, it uses GET to load a fully-responsive page. A few code tweaks make the technique both user- and search-engine friendly. Update 2: In screensize.php, changed window.location.href...
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Custom SharePoint browser warning
SharePoint 2010 includes a helpful dialog box that warns users who are using outdated versions of Internet Explorer: As you can see, however, it’s neither particularly attractive nor very helpful. It suggests that you update your browser, but provides no assistance in doing so. The last is important, because people...
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Turning radio buttons into pictures
Radio buttons are awesome, but there’s not much you can do to style them. Say you have a form that lets users pick a category of food and then answer questions about that food. You might have fruit, bread, meat, etc. as categories. Wouldn’t it be great to have the...
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Customizing the WordPress content editor
Last week I talked about how to customize SharePoint’s Rich Text Editor (RTE). This week I’ll discuss how to do the same for WordPress. WordPress uses a third-party tool called TinyMCE to provide RTE functions on its content editor. It has a fairly robust configuration setup, allowing you to do...
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