Posts Tagged ‘javascript’

Hijacked DNS Servers - Pointing to Ukraine

April 22, 2010Matt No Comments »

My parents have been having an issue with the internet at their place for a while now. I’ve just had a chance to look at it and it is quite suspicious.
Randomly when a Google search was performed, when you clicked the links you would be redirected to sites that you were not expecting, primarily parked [...]

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Peekaboo Internet Explorer 7

February 13, 2009Matt 3 Comments »

I posted yesterday regarding a problem I was having with Internet Explorer 7 rendering some JavaScript controlled pop ups incorrectly in one of my current projects.
I ended up fixing it by applying a position: relative; and z-index: 100; to each <p> tag. Nothing below 100 would display the text.
It turns out its a variant of [...]

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JavaScript and IE Problem

February 12, 2009Matt 1 Comment »

IE and problem in the same sentence, not surprising is it?
I’m working on a project at the moment where I’ve come up against a rather frustrating problem in Internet Explorer. I have a series of pop ups on a particular page that are opened with JavaScript when help links are clicked. The JavaScript for them [...]

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Disabling Form Input

October 21, 2008Matt No Comments »

Since I don’t have much time today, but I think I should write something for you to enjoy, I’ve decided to explain how to disable the input in a X/HTML form.Disabling the input to a form using XHTML or HTML is actually really easy, but it’s not very well known.
All you need is one [...]

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The New TerraMedia Design

July 19, 2008Matt 2 Comments »

Over at TerraMedia I’ve been quite busy over the past few weeks working on not only a new design for TerraMedia, but a completely new website!
It is now using Drupal instead of Joomla and the theme is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict along with being completely cross browser compatible. Developing it for Firefox, Safari, Opera and [...]

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Bookmark a Page With Javascript

June 3, 2008Matt No Comments »

I have been asked a few times how to add a bookmark link within a HTML page, so that people can just click the link and the website will be added to their bookmarks.
This is pretty straight forward to do, here is the code you would need:

<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite
('http://blog.stillaslife.com/code/bookmark-a-page-with-javascript/','Bookmark a Page With Javascript | Still As [...]

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Browsershots - Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing

December 18, 2007Matt No Comments »

I came across this nifty open-source piece of web-based software last night that is really quite an interesting and useful idea.
Created by Johann C. Rocholl, Browsershots allows you to submit a website for any of the available browsers on any of the available operating systems. You can also specify things such as with or without [...]

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Javascript, MouseOvers and Links

November 16, 2007Matt No Comments »

Yesterday I spent a good many hours working on changes to a client’s website that had to be completed by this morning. What should have been only a couple of hours of work ended up actually being 14 hours of work. The thing that took the longest ended up being a series of Javascript mouseovers [...]

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