25 Jan 2012

Simple, fuzzy, timesince function for use in Javascript

18 Sep 2009

Loading content from another domain using jQuery's load function

I was never aware before that you can not load content from external domains using jQuery's load function. I wanted to be able to load in a HTML stock ticker I had created into any website that I needed to display it on but could not. Here is the solution I came up with: I created a file "loadticker.php" and inside it put: 
echo file_get_contents("http://www.myscript.com/path/to/file.php");
I put this file on the domain of every website I wanted to load the content to and set each page where I wanted to display the content to load the local file, "loadticker.php". More of a workaround than a solution. On the pages where I was already using PHP and I was loading in the ticker I skipped loading the file and just simply added: 
echo file_get_contents("http://www.myscript.com/path/to/file.php");
Where I wanted to display the ticker.
12 Aug 2009

Preloading images without Javascript, using CSS instead

If I can find a way of using CSS for something I would normally do with Javascript, I will always go with CSS. It also usually works out easier and cleaner in CSS.

When displaying my 2 stage CSS buttons on a page I was working on, the second stage took a few moments too long to load, so I decided I wanted to preload those images using CSS.

Here is my solution...

The CSS:

img.preload { display: none; width: 1px; height: 1px; }

The HTML:

<img src="./path/to/image.jpg" alt="preloaded" class="preload" />

Just add the class preload to each image and you should be laughing.

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Hi, I’m Rick Vause. I am a web developer that loves Python.

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