[jQuery] Positioning an element towards the bottom, within limits

2007-11-18 Thread S. Robert James
I'd like to position an element at the bottom of the screen. This is easy, using position: fixed and bottom: ...px. However, on screens higher than 600px, I'd like to fix it at 600px from the top. That is, if the screen is shorter than 600px, push it to the bottom of the screebn otherwise, push

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
I should add my platform: Firefox 2 Win XP Pentium Core Duo jQuery 1.2.1 minified cached On Nov 4, 8:02 pm, "S. Robert James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I benchmarked also, using a homebrew console.debug(new > Date().getTime()), and consistently got about 90ms to load

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
> say that using the minified/gzipped solution will result in the least amount > of network overhead (duh) without the (albeit minor) performance hit of the > packed version. > > And on the original point about framesets, 0.016 seconds savings in time is > not worth the problems

[jQuery] Re: Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
On Nov 4, 3:04 pm, "Jeffrey Kretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would need to see some actual stats as to the performance hit of the > jQuery file loading itself into memory before I had this concern. > Is there a good way to profile page load, and determine how much time is spent parsing/exe

[jQuery] Re: jQuery Challenge

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
pm, Stefan Petre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > S. Robert James wrote: > > While working on > > this:http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/7cbc9fb... > > , I've tried to come up with a way to read attributes out of a CSS > > class, even i

[jQuery] jQuery Challenge

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
While working on this: http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/7cbc9fb45f7dc133 , I've tried to come up with a way to read attributes out of a CSS class, even if that class isn't applied to any element. No luck so far. Any jQuery pro's want to take a crack at it? Storing a

[jQuery] Drastically reducing jQuery load time

2007-11-04 Thread S. Robert James
While working on a web app, I thought of this method to drastically reduce jQuery load time. Every link follow causes jQuery to be reloaded again. Now, although the .js file is stored in the local cache, it still needs to be parsed and executed, which takes a lot of time. What if, instead, we us

[jQuery] Animating from one CSS class to another

2007-11-03 Thread S. Robert James
I have a animation using jQuery, which goes from one position to another. Right now, the positions are coded into JavaScript: $("#widget").animate({top: '500px'}) Instead of hard-coding 500px into JavaScript, or even passing it as a parameter, I'd much rather set them in CSS, and run the animat

[jQuery] Canceling an animation

2007-11-01 Thread S. Robert James
I have an animation that runs after a delay: setTimeout(function(){$(".mbox").fadeIn('slow');},500); If I need to cancel it, how do I this? I would like to cancel it regardless of whether it is still in the initial setTimeout of 500ms, or has already started to fadeIn.

[jQuery] Using Firefox's pageshow with jQuery

2007-11-01 Thread S. Robert James
Firefox provides pageshow and pagehide events, to handle page being refereshed from cache: quite useful! http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_Firefox_1.5_caching Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, jQuery simply won't bind to them! Anyone know of a way to bind to those events with jQue

[jQuery] Transparencys and Overlays

2007-10-26 Thread S. Robert James
I'm having trouble understanding how various jQuery plugins show transparency and overlays over certain elements (or the whole page). I think CSS provides the ability to do this, but I'm not sure. What is the basic CSS to: 1) Put a gray, semi-transparent sheet over the whole page? 2) To do the sa

[jQuery] Re: Solving the Back button problem

2007-07-19 Thread S. Robert James
I just want a simple function to answer 'first time' or 'back button reload'. I don't want to replace the entire nav of the app. On Jul 18, 11:01 pm, Kenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/18/07, S. Robert James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

[jQuery] Re: Listing methods of an object

2007-07-19 Thread Robert James
On 7/19/07, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert James wrote: > > > Is there a way to list all the methods that a particular JavaScript > object has? Or is there a tool that can do this? Speaking of tools, I highly recommend the Firebug extension for Firefox, truly

[jQuery] Re: Listing methods of an object

2007-07-18 Thread S. Robert James
Yes - what JS code allows it to see the list of all methods (and their source code!)? Jack Killpatrick wrote: > Something like this? > > http://www.netgrow.com.au/files/javascript_dump.cfm > > - Jack > > Robert James wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to

[jQuery] Solving the Back button problem

2007-07-18 Thread S. Robert James
Solving the Back button problem Is there a way to use JavaScript to detect whether a page is being loaded for the first time (from the server), or because someone hit the Back button? Often you want to display a status message only one, but not show it when they hit the Back button.

[jQuery] Listing methods of an object

2007-07-18 Thread Robert James
Is there a way to list all the methods that a particular JavaScript object has? Or is there a tool that can do this?

[jQuery] Re: Queuing Async Ajax requests in jQuery

2007-07-11 Thread Robert James
I've been bothered about this also. The simplest approach is to do what TCP/IP does - number each response, and ignore all but the latest response. To elaborate: since you can have multiple, parallel, independent streams of Ajax going on, you need to number those also - call them ports. For eac

[jQuery] Re: Detecting an event's return value

2007-07-01 Thread Robert James
On 7/1/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not as of yet - we're currently trying to figure out ways to improve the custom event/triggering system. --John That would be very helpful. If you want to use JavaScript to, for example, submit a form, there's currently no good way (that I k

[jQuery] Textfield word wrap

2007-07-01 Thread S. Robert James
I have a textfield which I don't show scrollbars on - easy, using CSS. But I'd like to have the lines wordwrap, instead of just going off the screen. Can I use jQuery to catch the maxrows and wrap lines which are too long?

[jQuery] Detecting an event's return value

2007-07-01 Thread S. Robert James
jQuery let's you simulate firing an event. Is there anyway to check if the event returned true or false?

[jQuery] Re: Catching events when jQuery fires

2007-05-20 Thread S. Robert James
And the problem remains - you don't know if the event return true or false. How do other people deal with this issue? To me, it seems like a serious limitation: you can't truly simulate events, because validating callbacks will be bypassed. On May 20, 6:03 pm, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[jQuery] Re: Catching events when jQuery fires

2007-05-20 Thread S. Robert James
ciated - basically I want to fire the registered event handlers and capture their return code. On May 20, 2:15 pm, "S. Robert James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One big problem I keep on running into is that event handlers don't > fire when the event is called via jQue

[jQuery] Catching events when jQuery fires

2007-05-20 Thread S. Robert James
One big problem I keep on running into is that event handlers don't fire when the event is called via jQuery. For instance, I want to disable submitting a form: jQuery('form').bind('submit', function() { return false; }) Works like a charm. But, if I use jQuery then to submit the form, it sti

[jQuery] Re: Using jQuery to select text

2007-05-18 Thread S. Robert James
Is this just impossible to do? On May 18, 2:21 pm, "S. Robert James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to prefill a text box in a form with a typical value, but > select the text, so that if the user begins typing, the prefilled text > is overwritten, wihtout

[jQuery] Using jQuery to select text

2007-05-18 Thread S. Robert James
I'd like to prefill a text box in a form with a typical value, but select the text, so that if the user begins typing, the prefilled text is overwritten, wihtout him having to erase it. (Just like the location bar in my browser - if I click on it, the text becomes selected, so that one key overwr

[jQuery] Following link with jQuery

2007-05-06 Thread S. Robert James
Is there any way to have jQuery simulate the click event, to the point of even following the link? $(...).click() will trigger other events, but not follow the link - I'm looking for a complete click simulation. (There must be some way using JavaScript - I know Selenium simulates this...)

[jQuery] Selecting the First of Many input types with jQuery

2007-05-06 Thread S. Robert James
I'd like to select the first text input, password input, or textarea on the page. Only those three types of elements, and only the first one. $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'text']:first, [EMAIL PROTECTED]'password']:first, textarea:first") is close, but not exact - it will take the first text input, and t