Never mind. After I posted this, I decided it made more sense to bring
it up in the jQuery development list. I keep seeing "dimensions" being
mentioned as a requirement, including in this thread.
On Feb 17, 9:35 am, Nazgulled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are you talking about? :S
>
> On Feb 17, 5:26 pm, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why has "dimensions" not been dragged into the core jQuery library? So
> > many plug-ins seem to want it that we end up with html files all over
> > the web that ask for dimensions, slowing the loading of the page.
>
> > On Feb 17, 4:39 am, Nazgulled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > @Eric Martin
> > > I took your suggestion in the jQuery Google Groups and I've been
> > > testing your plugin for the past couple of hours but I'm having a few
> > > difficulties accomplishing some stuff...
>
> > > 1) Through out my code I call $('#EXAMPLE-ID').modal({options})
> > > numerous times and I have a bunch of options repeating through every
> > > call. This kinda sucks... Is there a way I could configure the default
> > > options values and then simply call $('#EXAMPLE-ID).modal() and it
> > > will simply show the modal dialog with the options configured before?
> > > Also, in a way that if I want to override some of those default option
> > > values I've set, it would be nice...
>
> > > 2) I don't use a close 'X' button on my modal dialogs, I prefer to
> > > close the dialog manually in a different way- by clicking anywhere
> > > inside the modal dialog and for that, I bind the click() event to the
> > > respective ID. But for this to work, I need to close the modal dialog
> > > manually. I used to do the following using jqModal:
> > > $('div#popup-content').click(function() {
> > > $(this).jqmHide();});
>
> > > How can I accomplish the same thing using your plugin?
>
> > > 3) Last but not least... I've read the documentation here on this page
> > > about the onOpen and onClose callbacks but I'm not able to do want I
> > > want. Basically I want the whole modal dialog (overlay and container)
> > > to fade in (onOpen) and fade out (onClose) at the same time, like they
> > > were just one element with, for instance, 1000ms for both animations.
> > > How can I do that?
>
> > > On Feb 15, 5:06 pm, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > If you have a copy of IE6 - take a look at the demos and tests (if
> > > > not, you could install <a href="http://tredosoft.com/
> > > > Multiple_IE">Multiple IE</a>).
>
> > > > If you are referring to the opacity of the overlay, that does work in
> > > > IE6 (through the powers of jQuery). If you are asking about something
> > > > else, let me know.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Eric
>
> > > > On Feb 15, 8:45 am, Nazgulled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Your plugin looks cool and very simple... I'll have to take a deeper
> > > > > look though and read the whole documentation to see if it fits my
> > > > > needs (is configurable wnough for what I want to do). One question
> > > > > though... I don't if nay of the modal dialog plugins has this but:
> > > > > Let's say the user is using IE6, the translucent background doesn't
> > > > > work on this browser version, what happens with your plugin?
> > > > > Currently, I have a website with a modal dialog (it only displays a
> > > > > text message) but I'm using jQuery for it and I've done it using
> > > > > Javascript itself, however, for the background, I used a 4x4 gif image
> > > > > with 2 white pixels on the top-left corner and bottom-right corner and
> > > > > on the other corners, transparent pixels. Just so I could "hide" the
> > > > > content on the background, does your plugin do something like this or
> > > > > the translucent background will simply fail on IE6 (and other browsers
> > > > > that don't support it)?
>
> > > > > On Feb 15, 3:46 pm, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Nazgulled,
>
> > > > > > "Which one is best" kind of questions, usually lead to: it depends.
> > > > > > It
> > > > > > depends on what you want to use the dialog for and what your
> > > > > > requirements are.
>
> > > > > > Back in Nov 2007, I was evaluating modal dialogs for a project I was
> > > > > > working on. For various reasons, I ended up writing my own modal
> > > > > > dialog plugin, SimpleModal (http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/
> > > > > > simplemodal/).
>
> > > > > > For me, I just wanted something that would easily display content
> > > > > > in a
> > > > > > modal dialog, whether it was content from the DOM, a response from
> > > > > > an
> > > > > > Ajax call, HTML, or a plain string.
>
> > > > > > It doesn't have a bunch of bells and whistles...it just provides a
> > > > > > simple, cross-browser compatible, interface to display data in a
> > > > > > modal
> > > > > > dialog.
>
> > > > > > HTH.
>
> > > > > > -Eric
>
> > > > > > On Feb 14, 5:12 pm, Nazgulled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > There are so many plugins for modal dialogs that I don't know
> > > > > > > which
> > > > > > > one should I use and/or which one is the best... I mean, if there
> > > > > > > was
> > > > > > > only one plugin of this type including all the features from all
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > modal plugins, that would be cool.
>
> > > > > > > Which one do you think it's the best and why? Care to state the
> > > > > > > pros
> > > > > > > and cons of each plugin (or the ones you know/have already
> > > > > > > tested)?
> > > > > > > That would be nice...
