Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box
Building on the post Reading XML with jQuery, I have modified the success function to parse the XML data and load it into a drop-down box. You can get the demo files from Reading XML with jQuery here. Once you download and unzip the demo files, open the index.html in your favorite editor. Then remove all the HTML between the body tag and also all the jQuery in the success function. I also changed the page title to “Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box Demo.”
Read MoreAdd Scroll Bars to Full Browser Flash with a Simple jQuery Plugin
Got a great Flash site? Can it be used by someone with low resolution? This plugin offers an easy way to keep your full browser Flash from getting too small.
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Build an Unsupported Browser Warning with jQuery
Over at CSS-tricks there’s an article about blocking Internet Explorer 6. If the IE 6 Blocker Script is a little too extreme for you, check out what I use on client web sites.
Read MoreUse jQuery with Google Analytics to Track Clicks on Outgoing Links From Your Site.
So you have a nice site or blog with lots of links to other places. Wouldn’t it be nice to use the power built into Google Analytics to track those links, without having to add the necessary JavaScript to every link? Here is a very easy way: Add outbound link tracking to a new or existing site. Provided that your links to other sites have the REL attribute set, you can track them very easily with some help from jQuery.
Read MoreFunction Override for AS3?
Alright, so here is the problem: I work with several designers with varying abilities who all tinker with Flash. With making the switch to AS3, I am trying to package more stuff into classes for them to reuse. One of the classes I just created is a simple image loader that rotates the images using TweenMax.
Read MoreA List of Tweening Classes for Flash
There are a lot of great options for tweening in Flash. My current favorite is TweenMax and it’s little brother TweenLite.
Read MoreAdding Twitter to Your Web Site with JavaScript
Today at work we needed to pull our Twitter feed into our site. Not wanting to have to deal with the Twitter feed in back-end code, we decided to try out some already-written JavaScript setups for doing what we needed.
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