The iframe cross-domain policy problem

I wrote a small post on Cakemail blog about using iframes, here an excerpt and a link to the full article.

If you are a front-end developer that need to use a cross-domain iframe, you know pain. You could write a nice bit of code and get it working on firefox but it would crash on ie. You would think that would be easy – facebook, twitter and all the others cool kids are doing it! Well, not quite.

Here at Cakemail we are currently building a platform that will enable our users to create forms and embed them in their website directly (think an email list subscription form). So basically, we needed to have javascript control in the parent and in the child.

We had 2 problems…

A front-end developer journey into symfony..

I love doing HTML/CSS/Javacscript, but what happens when you want to create a project that Wordpress can’t handle? Beside finding someone who can do it I mean.. Well you have to learn new stuff and this is how I immersed myself in more complex back-end work.

Making a framework choice

Where do I start? like anyone I guess, I check for the best framework to learn. Obviously I am not going to create my own MVC framework, some of the best php guys are already doing that (And also I suck at doing php). And I am not going to use a CMS, not enough barebone to do an app, less extensible and also more security problems (plus I hate Joomla and Drupal). So I browse the web, django,…

Form validation engine 2.0 is live

As said previously a rewrite of the validation engine has been in the work for sometimes and today it is finally live, the API changed a lot, might be a good idea to have a look at the new documentation if you are upgrading.

I will be updating the documentation today, but the most up to date doc will always be the readme on github. The legacy 1.7 documentation and download can be found under package when you hit download on github

Time to stop squeezing ketchup (inside joke) and hail to the beast.

Form validation engine 2.0 will be live soon

I will be updating the validation engine to version 2.0 this week, you can have a preview of the beast here. This version is a complete rewrite of the actual code, and mostly all api’s had changes, so if your upgrading, you better have a good look at the documentation (see readme).

The rewrite was done by Olivier Refalo, I wanted to do a rewrite for some times but a lack of time and passion about this stopped me. The script was near 3 years old and while I was happy with it, to stay in a “modern” javascript world it needed significant changes.

The core of the library stayed the same, but what is wrapping is a lot better, Olivier also did a nice rewrite of…

Printing web pages & a new jQuery print plugin

Printing is becoming more and more obsolete these days, however most websites still do offer a print stylesheet . Print stylesheets are rarely perfect, when you start disabling some parts of your website you’re bound to forget to disable a div and your layout will probably give you an headache.

Making a site print friendly

There is generally 2 way used for making a website print friendly. Your first option is to use the technique I’ve talked before and make a print stylesheet directly in your website, and you disable everything that is not relevant content.

Generally it becomes rapidly a mess, unfortunately disabling every parts of your website can be tedious, and you are at the mercy of odd IE behaviors because of divs multiplication, css float…