I'm a self-proclaimed javascript dunce. I can usually "make it work" when needed, but I'm sure I end up doing things less than optimally 99% of the time. I hope to pick a javascript library/framework and stick with it (i.e. jQuery), but that's not the topic of this question. This is probably due in large part to the fact that anything I...
I'm using TinyMCE in an ASP.Net project, and I need a spell check. The only TinyMCE plugins I've found use PHP on the server side, and I guess I could just break down and install PHP on my server and do that, but quite frankly, what a pain. I don't want to do that. As it turns out, Firefox's built-in spell check will work fine for me, b...
I recently discovered Yahoo's YUI Compressor software and started using it on my website. What I'm disappointed about with the software is its lack of a GUI, as well as a lack of a way to combine files. Does anyone know of a project which uses the YUI Compressor as a backend that provides a GUI front-end with the ability to combine fil...
I do some minor programming and web work for a local community college. Work that includes maintaining a very large and soul destroying website that consists of a hodge podge of VBScript, javascript, Dreamweaver generated cruft and a collection of add-ons that various conmen have convinced them to buy over the years. A few days ago I g...
I'm a moderately skilled programmer using JavaScript but I am no guru. I know you can do some pretty powerful things with it, I just haven't seen much other than fairly basic DOM manipulation. I'm wondering if people could provide some examples of traditional design pattern concepts such as Factory Method, Singleton, etc using JavaScript...
Hi, I'm looking for opinions on the best JavaScript editor available as an Eclipse plugin. I've been using Spket, which is good, but I'm convinced there must be something better out there, is there....? Cheers, Donal ...
Does anyone know of an easy way to escape HTML from strings in jQuery? I need to be able to pass an arbitrary string and have it properly escaped for display in an HTML page (preventing JavaScript/HTML injection attacks). I'm sure it's possible to extend jQuery to do this, but I don't know enough about the framework at the moment to ac...
This problem started on a different board, but Dave Ward, who was very prompt and helpful there is also here, so I'd like to pick up here for hopefully the last remaining piece of the puzzle. Basically, I was looking for a way to do constant updates to a web page from a long process. I thought AJAX was the way to go, but Dave has a nice...
Is there some function like delay() or wait() for delaying executing of the JavaScript code for a specific number of milliseconds? ...
I have an image and on it are logos (it's a map), I want to have a little box popup with information about that logo's location when the user moves their mouse over said logo. Can I do this without using a javascript framework and if so, are there any small libraries/scripts that will let me do such a thing? ...
FCKeditor has InsertHtml API (JavaScript API document) that inserts HTML in the current cursor position. How do I insert at the very end of the document? Do I need to start browser sniffing with something like this if ( element.insertAdjacentHTML ) // IE element.insertAdjacentHTML( 'beforeBegin', html ) ; else ...
I want to be able to make an HTTP call updating some select boxes after a date is selected. I would like to be in control of updating the textbox so I know when there has been a "true" change (in the event the same date was selected). Ideally, I would call a function to pop-up the calendar and be able to evaluate the date before populati...
I am looking for some JavaScript based component to be used as a course scheduler which would be a cross between Google Calendar and the login time. I do not know if the right term for this is Course Scheduler but I shall describe this in more detail here. Course Scheduler The widget would be used to enter date and times of a course, as...
What Javascript keywords (function names, variables, etc) are reserved? ...
I've seen news of John Resig's fast new selector engine named Sizzle pop up in quite a few places, but I don't know what a selector engine is, nor have any of the articles given an explanation of what it is. I know Resig is the creator of jQuery, and that Sizzle is something in Javascript, but beyond that I don't know what it is. So, wh...
My coworker and I have encountered a nasty situation where we have to use an active X control to manipulate a web camera on a page. Is it possible to assign a javascript event handler to a button in the active x control so that it would fire an action on the page when clicked, or do we have to create a button on the html page itself tha...
Are there any good PL/SQL libraries for JSON that you've worked with and found useful? In PL/SQL, I'm having to tediously hand code the return of JSON values to JavaScript functions. I found one PL/SQL library for auto-generating JSON, but it doesn't do exactly everything I need it too. For example, I couldn't extend the base functions ...
Are there any good recommendations anyone can provide for a good Javascript editor on Windows? I currently use combinations of FireBug and TextPad but would hate to miss out on the party if there are better options out there. Thanks. ...
I want to compare 2 arrays of objects in JavaScript code. The objects have 8 total properties, but each object will not have a value for each, and the arrays are never going to be any larger than 8 items each, so maybe the brute force method of traversing each and then looking at the values of the 8 properties is the easiest way to do w...
My javascript is pretty nominal, so when I saw this construction, I was kind of baffled: var shareProxiesPref = document.getElementById("network.proxy.share_proxy_settings"); shareProxiesPref.disabled = proxyTypePref.value != 1; Isn't it better to do an if on proxyTypePref.value, and then declare the var inside the result, only if you...