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javascript sorting array of mixed strings and null values

When soritng an array made of a mix of strings, null values and zeros, i get the result not properly as exptected, null values seem to get sorted as if they were 'null' strings. I did this (tested on FireFox): var arr1 = arr2 = [null, "b", "c", "d", null, "e", 0, "g", null, 0, "h", "i", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "ne", "nur", "nimbus"]; ...

navigator.onLine

I'm playing with the incomplete example found at http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/ But I'm distressed to see comments in it like: "renders the note somewhere", and "report error", and "// …" So, will someone please help me write a valid example? Here's what I've got so far: <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html manifest="cache-manifest"> <head>...

how to use javascript Regex to extract id: http://site/page?object_id=2

the url: http://site/page?object_id=2 I want the number (id). ...

Can't get rid of vertical scroll-bar that holds thumbnails in photo gallery.

I used Picasa to create an image gallery, which is part of a website that I am creating. I can't figure out how to remove the scroll-bar (it holds thumbnails) on the side that I think is from an iframe? Here are the pages that I have to work with: The "imageset.html" code: <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ch...

Calling URL parameters within a .js file.

Hello! I am calling a .js file within a HTML file. On the URL to the .js file I want to include a parameter that will be accessable to the code INSIDE the .js file. For example: I want to be able to pass the ID value to a function within the jquery_widget.js file, with the help of jQuery. How is this done? Thankful for all help! ...

Has anyone used JS.Class and liked it?

Has anyone used JS.Class and liked it? I 've used Joose before and find it really good in creating clean code that is very readable and maintainable. Any real life stories about JS.Class? ...

Error is not caught by jquery start() function

[Update. I need to be more precise, I see...] See the following example in javascript: <html> <head> <script> window.onerror = function() { alert('error'); // this one works try {i.dont.exist += 0;} catch(e) { // do some stacktrace stuff, this does not trigger alert(e.stack); ...

Closure problem with Listener and Google Maps markers

I want to add a Listener event to each generated marker, so that when you click a marker you are redirected to the permalink url. With the code below the permalink value is the same for every marker(it get's the last value). I've read about closure problems and that seems to be what I'm having. I don't really get the examples I've looked...

Access ASP.NET authentication ticket on Client (via javascript)

Hi all, I have an ASP.NET website that uses Forms authentication <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name="NewsCoreAuthentication" loginUrl="~/Default.aspx" defaultUrl="~/Default.aspx" protection="Validation" timeout="300" domain="someRootDomain.com" /> </authentication> I need to identify if user is authenticated on...

Can't make wmode: 'transparent' work on sIFR 3

I've been trying to use sIFR to change some text in my webpage. It works fine until I try to get it to use a transparent canvas. The code I'm using is as follow. I have no idea to fix it. I've seen a lot of people make this questions about wmode: 'transparent' and it all seems to work but mine. Can someone give me a hand??? Without the ...

AnyThing Slider JQuery plugin working in Chrome, not in Firefox, can't find error

The JQuery AnythingSlider doesn't splay images in a RTL (right to left) (Hebrew) website. It works in Chrome, but not in Firefox and Safari. What am I missing? Thanks! ...

Javascript: issue when dynamically adding a row from its HTML to a table in IE

I looked at some other questions like this one but they don't address this particular issue: When I run this code in IE (8): $("<tr><td>1</td><td>A</td></tr>").appendTo("#myTable tbody"); I end up with this HTML being added to the table's body: <TR> 1</TD><//TD> <TD> </TD> A</TD><//TD></TR><//TR> </TR> Any idea? Thanks in advance...

Tinymce popup dialog behavior

In Tinymce , I can set the behavior of popup dialog as inline or window and in case of inline we can make it as modal or normal dialog using dialog_type : "modal" in init function However ,this 'll affect all the dialog box . Can I set some dialog as inline and some as window popup in one tinymce instance ...

How does AJAX do antying if XMLHttpRequestObject is deleted and/or contains no value since it's also set to null?

So I'm reading a book on AJAX, and they are talking about using inner function as a way to handle multiple requests. I understand that, but in this bit of code they used, I don't understand how the variable XMLHttpRequestObject can still be used: if(XMLHttpRequestObject) { XMLHttpRequestObject.open(“GET”, dataSource); XMLHttpR...

Trying to validate captcha with javascript before sending to php form validation

Hi I'm a relative newbie. Have a mail contact form set up with a captcha image generator. When the captcha is verified, on submitting the form, a php page is actioned which further validates the input data (checking against spam). Challenge: would like to retain form data in case of error in enterred capthca code and needing to return ...

JQuery Slideshow not working in IE8, works fine in Safari/Firefox

The website (www.hilaryandmatthew.com) for my upcoming wedding has a really nifty JQuery slideshow (courtesy of www.dynamicdrive.com) I hope I can get some help ASAP, I really want my site looking sharp before I send out the Invitations. I don't know anything about JQuery... hence I experience the pitfall of copy&pasting open-source ...

jQuery colorbox only binds to 1 element in IE 7 and FF 3.0

I'm just about finished writing a backend for a website in PHP/MySQL/jQuery, but my jQuery colorboxes aren't working in older versions of IE and Firefox. Steps to reproduce problem: 1. Navigate to http://swstrailers.com/ 2. Scroll to the very bottom and click the Login link in the right corner 3. Leave the fields blank and click the Log...

Does YUI compressor support bundling of multiple files?

I created a moduling system using jQuery. Is there any build system something similar to Dojo's Shrinksafe, that could combine all my module files into one single file for production? Does YUI Compresser is all about single file compression or does it support bundling the module files as well? JavascriptMVC uses a custom build of Shrin...

Why was ECMAScript 4th edition completely scrapped?

I've been looking for some information regarding the scrapped ECMAScript 4th Edition without much success, even on SO. I know Mozilla's JavaScript 1.7 implemented many (all?) of the new features offered in 4th Edition and I thought I remembered a good John Resig post on it but I can't seem to find it on his blog now. In particularly, I...

Parsing responseXML with Prototype's $()

I've got XML coming back from an Ajax.Request in Ajax.Response.responseXML. My XML actually contains XHTML tags which I hope to append into my document. I'm having issues appending nodes from the responseXML into the current document, however. I suspect that this is because they are XML nodes and not DOM nodes. Wrapping the responseXM...