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Form Validation Engine 1.6 online
This version correct a small bug were when the success function was used, it would not unbind the validation and create a loop upon trying to re-submitting the form. It also add a way to request a true or false validation to the engine without any submit binding. Example:
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alert($("#formID").validationEngine({returnIsValid:true}))
Grab it in the project page.
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Friday video: Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is “the great challenge of the age””
You can see the full 45 minutes interview here.
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Scripty2 to replace script.aculo.us
For those of you guys that never did some prototype (the framework), script.aculo.us is the most used animation framework on top of it. And Scripty2 is coming along the way to give a bit of fresh air to this framework.
I was really baffled when I first looked at the scripty2 website, it is bouncing all over the place. They did a very good job at promoting their framework. Have a look, it might even get you to have a look at prototype.
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Form Validation Engine 1.5 live
I did not had a lot of time to work on my plugins lately, I am also trying to push forward position absolute platform, but I did find a bit of time to work on my validation engine. In this updated you will find a bugfix to checkbox using some framework like Cake php and also:
Change validation trigger *thanks to Francois Duquette
You can change the event that triggers the validation in the settings, default is blur
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$("#formID").validationEngine({
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validationEventTriggers:"keyup blur", //will validate on keyup and blur
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success : false,
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failure : function() { callFailFunction() }
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})
Debug Mode
I also added a debug window, it will appears when there is something wrong with the validation engine. It has a set of trigger to look upon validation and try…
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Unofficial jQuery 1.4 sneakpeak
A nice little article recently appeared on jQuery 1.4. If you want to see what is coming next for your preferred framework, this is the place to go.
Personally, even if it already exists in plugins, I am happy to see lazy load of JS and CSS files included in the core, also there seems to be a nice little addition to the animation core, you will be able to animate synchronously objects together.
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Geocities is down, forever.
I couldn’t pass the opportunity to say how sad I am that Yahoo decided to close Geocities’ doors. If you were doing websites in high school, you were probably hosted on Geocities or Angelfire. It probably hosted most of the 90’s websites and was at a time, the top 3 “hub” website visited.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find any trace of my old websites, so you will not be able to see those magnificent relics, but it involves black background and white text anyway.
So it might be better for you guys that i couldn’t find them in time!
See the Geocities saga right here on Wikipedia
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Position Absolute goes mobile, and a small introduction to jQtouch
What a better way of testing the jQtouch beta that by creating a mobile version of Position Absolute. You can test it out with safari at this address, or just tap position-absolute.com in your iPhone.
What can I say, I am stunned at the work here, jQtouch should really be your framework for creating small mobile websites (assuming you want to support only mobile webkit, so iPhone and Android based phone).
Perfect for list and text pages
It is not surprising that if there is something this framework does well, its animation on the iPhone. Webkit integrated lot’s of animation goodies, and jQtouch make the best out of it. You add a specific class for each type of transition and it will automatically animate the transition between your 2…
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CSS abstraction Series: Introduction to xCSS
I recently did an introduction to Less CSS following my read of why abstraction matters, in this article I was demonstrating how Less could be useful to your front-end development team, but the big disadvantage was that you had to install ruby on your development computers in order to use it.
Installing ruby in some case can be out of the question, however, using a non intrusive php framework works quite better, and this is what xCSS seems to aim for.
And it works pretty well
Installing xCSS is pretty easy, it took me 5 minute to follow the instruction the first time, and the other times were a breeze.
The idea is simple, you put a folder named xcss on top of your css folder. You also add a…
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Google Analytics to become ‘intelligent’
Google announced quite a few new features for analytics for the near future on it’s blog. When I think about it, it is crazy that this web application is free. Anyway, in the next version you will get intelligent behavior, like setting custom alerts or using data pattern, telling quite a bit more important information.
I am not really a SEO junkie so I cannot explain it better than this article does.
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Wondering why Mozilla blocked the Microsoft Foundation extension?
Most of you Windows and Firefox users probably saw that one extension from Microsoft was blocked last week. There is quite a story behind this and an employee from Mozilla decided to explain how this little saga has taken place here.
By the way, if you are wondering how it installed itself without your permission, well you are like me.
Articles
Some Tweets
- looked at bell and videotron for a tv network solution, full of hidden rules, went with shaw direct @ShawDirect_News , honest service
- interesting post about Cross-domain localStorage http://bit.ly/9dfW8F
- back to work after 2 week of renovation on my house, glad to be back at doing javascript..
- traded my computer for this http://bit.ly/cCKVbr for 2 week, want my computer back..
- kind of old, bit I like it http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/
- I really have a love/hate relationship with the E texteditor, so good but so bad at the same time
