javascript

Best java api for facebook connect

What is a good Java api for Facebook connect implementation. something that is atleast moderately documented and is still active in terms of releases. Can I achieve everything with javascript API too? Thanks ...

Open browser windows without menu bars (JavaScript?)

The users in my community want the chat to be opened in a small window without all the control bars. So I think a popup window without scroll bars, location bar, status bar and so on would be the best solution. Right? What is the best way to have such a popup window? JavaScript? Can I do it like this? BETWEEN AND <script type="text...

How to limit users from entering english characters in a textbox

Do I need to use regex to ensure that the user has typed in English? All characters are valid except non English characters. How do I validate this textbox? ...

How does Google achieve the fading effect on the home page?

If you go to google.com, you notice the menu on top slowly appears once you have mouse over the page. I was wondering what does Google use to control the fading effect? [edit] since I don't use jQuery, I don't want to include it just to use this feature ...

document.getElementById("ID").focus() + Google Chrome

document.getElementById("ID").focus() not work in Google Chrome. Is there any alternative? Thank you. ...

jquery and ASP.Net AJAX framework

Hello everyone, I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + ASP.Net. I am new to jQuery and ASP.Net AJAX framework. Suppose I need to use jQuery function (e.g. from jquery-1.3.2.js). I want to confirm that jQuery and ASP.Net AJAX framework are totally two different things, no dependencies? So, no need to install and configure ASP...

How can I programmatically inspect an ActiveXObject at runtime, using Javascript?

I am looking to create a Javascript library for ActiveX objects, enabling chainability. For example, I am looking to replace this: var dbEngine=new ActiveXObject('DAO.DBEngine.36'); var dbs=dbEngine.OpenDatabase('D:\\Todo.mdb'); var rs=dbs.OpenRecordset('SELECT * FROM ListItems'); with something like this (a la jQuery): var rs=AX('...

smart resizing of image preview sizes?

im using a image preview that allows me to add css styles to the previews that pops up. now, some images are larger than the screen so you will just see a portion of them, while other images are very small so you don't have to resize them. is there a way to only resize the larger images and not touching the smaller ones, eg. only resiz...

How to track a Google Adwords conversion onclick?

Google Adwords offers no code to add to your page to count a conversion if somebody clicks on a link. But as it's Javascript, I am sure there is a way to do this. Here's the code (unaltered) Google gives you to include in the page, that should count as a conversion (most of the time a thank you page): <!-- Google Code for Klick Convers...

get firefox to decrypt using private portion of client certificate

I am interested in having something that I encrypt using a public key on a LAMPhp server, decrypted using the appropriate private key on the web client (firefox at least, best if it is standard javascript) Note that what I want to do is -not- merely to have an encrypted connection using SSL/https. Or even to use browser-based client ce...

Javascript sort help

I'm trying to sort some xml into different arrays and I'm a bit stuck on how to go about this. Here is the xml: http://pastebin.ca/1754892 I'm using this xpath expression to get every "series" element that contains at least one "item" child node. var ceerez = theXML.evaluate( '//series[item]' ,theXML, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_S...

navigation list issue

Hi All, I am working on a small application below where there is a collection of list items all list items should be within the box no matter how many they are like they can be on the second column. Also I want to keep a limit on the number of list items that can be displayed like not more then say 10 so the moment there are 10 items th...

jQuery Ajax Loader

Greetings, I would like to know what should I do to make appear a ajax loader... actually I am calling a function in ajax... everything is going well here is how it's being done $('#txtEmail').blur(function() { $.post("ajaxAvailability.aspx",{ email:$(this).val() } ,function(data) { if(data=='false')...

Modifying a Levenshtein distance function to calculate distance between two sets of x-y coordinates?

I've been trying to work on modifying a Levenshtein Distance function so that it can find the distance between two lines, or sets of x-y coordinates (in other words, how similar or different the lines are, not their geometric distance). I'm running into some problems though. I get how you take the value above to get deletion cost, and th...

Create hidden cmd javascript

I'm looking for a way to run a cmd command without showing the cmd window to the user. I'm using something like: function reboot() { var ws = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); ws.Exec("shutdown.exe -r -t 120"); } But it still shows the window, is there anyway not to show it? Thanks ...

quotes in prepopulated html fields

If you want to prepopulate an html text field with a string that includes a double quote ("), you need to html-encode it, as &quot; , unfortunately, the string '"abc"' encoded as "&quot;abc&quot;" submitted with the form to the server, is indistinguishable by the server from the string "&quot;abc&quot;" entered literally. Using ' to del...

Need an auto-complete multi-value selector like StackOverflow's "Interesting Tag" selector

I need a javascript control like the one used by stackoverflow for selecting/removing interesting and ignored tags. I really like the concept of creating little DIVs representing the item(s) you've selected, with an x to remove them. Where can I find a control like this? Did the creators of stackoverflow write this themselves? ...

YouTube API — not firing 'onYouTubePlayerReady()'

From what I've read, this is how I should setup the YouTube API: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta content='text/html;charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='content-type' /> <title>Youtube Player</title> <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject...

What property is alert showing me?

Hi When I am writing Javascript, I use window.alert() to debug. Usually I pass variables to alert and it pops up with a string containing that variables value. However, if I pass alert an object, it tells me the type of the object. For example: var form = document.getElementById("my_form"); alert(form); // returns [object HTMLFormEleme...

trying to reuse javascript code by moving it from view to js file

i have a bunch of code where i dynamically create dropdown boxes in javascript. To prepulate the list of dropdown items, i often have code similar to below where i "inject" in the array of data items from my model so i have <%= myHTMLhelper.ShowArray(Model.List ofItems %> code inside of a javascript function. This works perfectly exce...