javascript

Javascript timezone solution needed(taking into account the actual difference in UTC timestamps)

I have unix timestamps from time zone X which is not known, the current timestamp(now()) in TZ X is known 1275143019, how to approach a javascript function so that it can generate the datetime in the users current TZ in the format 2010-05-29 15:32:35 ? UPDATE I'm not a unix timestamp expert,if unix timestamp is always the same in dif...

How do I determine if truncation is being applied in my style through JS?

I am applying truncation using CSS styles: .yui-skin-sam td:not(.yui-dt-editable) .yui-dt-liner{ white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; -ms-text-overflow: ellipsis; -o-text-overflow: ellipsis; -moz-binding: url('ellipsis.xml#ellipsis'); } .yui-skin-sam td[class~=yui-dt-edita...

Sending an email with browser capabilities and screen size etc.

A lot of my visitors are blind (with it being a site for the blind), and often when trying to diagnose problems, I'd like to know what version of browser etc they're using, whether flash is installed. Because more often than not, someone will swear they are using X, when in fact Y is installed. Currently, I'm using http://jsbrwsniff.sour...

Display real time years, months, weeks and days between 2 days in JavaScript

This is what I've coded it up, and it appears to work. window.onload = function() { var currentSpan = document.getElementById('current'); var minute = 60000, hour = minute * 60, day = hour * 24, week = day * 7, month = week * 4, year = day * 365; var start = new Date(2009, 6, 1); setI...

how can i make a dynamic drop down box in php?

i need in an php file three drop down boxes or multiple select boxes. the entries from these boxes are in a mysql database. the single problem is that the entries in the thrid box depend on the second, and the entries in the second depend on the first. can someone help? know any examples? ...

too much recursion

Hey guys, I got an error in javascript and it won't get away. :-) In the little recursive thingy following, I want to replace a value inside a (nested) object. var testobj = { 'user': { 'name': 'Mario', 'password': 'itseme' } }; updateObject('emesti', 'password', testobj) function updateObject(_value, _property...

Javascript update before page loads in ASP.NET

Hello, I'm trying to update values from a xml file into textboxes. I have this javascript being called in the Page_Load event this.Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "Script", sb.ToString(), true); I click the continue button which does a post back but the values are not updated until I refresh the page again whi...

Javascript Back Button - Stop the initial load of back button from working

Hi, I'm using a javascript back button link and forward button link to control the user's history inside a modal/lightbox window. The challenge I have is when the modal window is launched, and the "back" and "forward" buttons are present for the user to click, if the initial javascript back button is clicked when the window opens, it a...

JQuery object expected error when accessing page via url routing.

In my global.asax I have url routing setup like below: routes.MapPageRoute("User Logon", "{Vendor}/Logon", "~/Logon.aspx"); In the logon.aspx page, I have a script that "stylizes" the logon button: <link href="jquery/css/flick/jquery-ui-1.8.1.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="images/style.css" rel="styleshee...

Jquery and Prototype Conflict

I am having trouble running two javascript files on the same page. I used JQuery.noConflict() (http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.noConflict/) but no luck. <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script> google.load("prototype", "1.6.0.3",{uncompressed:false}); google.load("scripta...

how does facebook/digg get all of the iamges for a webpage?

DO they use a php page to analyze the link, and return all of the images as josn? Is there a way to do this with just javascript, so you dont have to go to the server to analyze the page? ...

Ajax request. Which callback is executed first complete or success?

I could spike this to find out, but I'm going to use SO. In my unit tests (qunit) I use the asynchShould (alias for asynchTest) test. Part of the assertion is to wait for the completion/success of the request. Like this: asyncShould('talk to customer list server', 1, function() { stop(2000); var forCustomerList = newCustomerList...

Call overidden method in Dojo

In dojo, one cannot call a overidden superclass method outside of the same method in the derived class (for which there is this.inherited(), other than that one can call using class_name.function_name.apply). This feature is no longer there because of some refactoring and dojo guys are not going to put it back because they are not convin...

Large number of connected sortable lists causes momentary hang in IE

I've got around 85 sortable ul's all connected with each other, and initializing the sortable() function works fine in Chrome and Firefox, but in IE it causes a 5-10 second hang while it loops through and connects them all. Yes they /do/ need to all be connected to each other unfortunately. Any suggestions as to how I can stop IE from ...

Unregister callbacks from dojo.Deferred

Is there any way to unregister callbacks from dojo.Deferred? If not why? ...

Javascript Callback when variable is set to X

Hey everyone, Have an issue I can't seem to wrap my head around. I'm wanting to write a generic javascript function that will accept a variable and a callback, and continue to execute until that variable is something other than false. For example, the variable SpeedFeed.user.sid is false until something else happens in the code, but I ...

How to dynamically control the size of a HIT in Amazon Mechanical Turk?

I'm posting search relevance evaluation task. Basically I'll provide a query and a bunch of URLs which may or may not be relevant. Turkers need point out which ones are relevant and which ones are not. To not to bother Turkers to click on the url and comme back again,I've put "iframe"s in the HIT. But since there are 25 urls in a HIT, i...

jquery: i have to use parseInt() even when deal with numbers, why?

i have the following script <select id="select1"> <option value="1">1day</option> <option value="2">2day</option> <option value="3">3day</option> </select> <select id="select2"> <option value="1">1day</option> <option value="2">2day</option> <option value="3">3day</option> </select> and...

Is this the best way to query an element and its children?

I'm trying to query an element and its children to find ID's that begin with a particular string. var foundIDs = containerElement.find('[id^=something]').andSelf().filter('id^=something'); The find() method only searches descendants so I thought I'd try andSelf(). However, andSelf() does not take a selector. This means that the cont...

change background image, when big size umage loads

i have a div element, with very big size background image. so, is it possible, to set a little size image as backgrount, untill the big size image loads. thanks ...