Keith asks: > >OK, so the template file I use for WYDIWYS has a problem. > >It pulls event keyCodes with firefox, not with Safari or IE. > >I can still navigate with a mouse, I just can't use my clicker.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:19:07PM -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: > probably your best bet is to use something like jquery which handles > browser differences for you. Thanks, Joe! jQuery looks like just the ticket. It is open source, free, and provides one interfact that works with all browsers - somebody else takes care of all the silly exceptions. A client side include of jquery.js downloads the 50K to 100K file, which is cached and used with all the pages that need it. Indeed, adding another .js file for the prev/next slide selection stuff looks like a good way to factor out some common JavaScript from all my slides. I found a description of jQuery in "JavaScript - the Missing Manual" (2008) which I just brought home from the library. This looks like a handy book. However, if you, or anybody else reading this, understands jQuery and JavaScript well enough to help Eric and me improve our slide presenters, please come to Advanced Topics Wednesday night at 7pm and teach us something about it. Please help our slide presenter programs Suck Less. Keith BTW - why does this stuff matter to open source? Because webslides and websites in general should be viewable with as many browsers as possible - Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc. JavaScript is an open language, the SeaMonkey interpreter built into Mozilla/Firefox is open code, and if you are designing web pages with client-side smarts, JavaScript is probably your best bet. Yes, Micro$oft forked JavaScript into JScript, and inverted the Document Object Model because they are meanies, but that is the world we live in, and if we want our web pages to be accessable to IE users, we need to design J[ava]Script that swings both ways. jQuery looks like an easy (and open source) way to do so. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
