Author Archives: Jay Jay
Firebug DOM panel colour-coding/legend
Found out (over here) that the colour codes in Firebug are:
Format Description Bold Black Objects Black DOM objects get in gray "Getter" functions Bold green User functions Green DOM functions Bold Red Constructor functions
Native HTML5 Drag and Drop
Found an article on Native HTML5 Drag and Drop…
Apache HTTP Proxy Header Manipulation
Found this:
<Location /jira> RequestHeader unset Authorization ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass http://jiraserver/jira ProxyPassReverse http://jiraserver/jira </Location>
Over here. Wanted to keep a note of those settings.
window.resizeTo( … )
See here:
- You can’t resize a window or tab that wasn’t created by window.open.
- You can’t resize a window or tab when it’s in a window with more than one tab.
- Also, even if you create window by window.open(…) it is not resizable by default …see 4.
- To make window created by window.open() resizable, you must open it with resizable feature
myExternalWindow = window.open("http://example.com", "myWindowName", "resizable");
myExternalWindow.resizeTo(500,500); //resize window to 500x500
What to do if you accidentally press Ctrl+S in Vim
If you press Ctrl+S in Vim (i.e. because that’s hard-wired for ‘save’) your terminal may lockup, depending on how it’s configured.
If you want to know why, have a read here. If you just want to get on with life, press Ctrl+Q!
Everything is easy when you know how.
Input keyboard for decimal input on iPhone
So I needed to adjust a value (the odds of a horse winning a race) that has a fractional part and an integer part (i.e. a ‘double’, or ‘float’). The standard numeric input on an iPhone doesn’t include a decimal point, so I needed to trigger a different input device.
I ended up with this:
<input type="number" pattern="[\d\.]*" step="0.01" inputmode="numeric">
HTML glow effects
Found some cool glow effects. Couldn’t actually get them to work in my context, but it’s the thought that counts.
Passing selected value into HTML select onchange handler
So you have a <select> element and you want to call a handler, but you need to pass the selected value to the handler because you have multiple instances of the same <select> and can’t access them by ID (because there is many, one of which will have the new selected value, but you don’t know which). The solution is to pass in the newly selected value, like this:
<select onchange='handle_change( this.value )'>
Easy-peasy!
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Read a little bit of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0… should come back to this when I have more time.