[jQuery] Re: Strongly recommend jQuery In Action book

[iain duncan]

Seconded, it's a really well done book. As is the Rhino.

Also excellent is Pro Javascript Design Patterns.

Iain

[jQuery] page flashing when using mac firefox

[iain duncan]

Hey folks, I am getting weird flashing/opacity pumping happening on
mac firefox when I use the fadeIn or fadeOut effects. The flash is
happening on the whole page while the fades are only happening on the
elements I've attached them too.

Anyone know what causes this and how to fix it?

Thanks
Iain

[jQuery] doc type error when using corner plugin

[iain duncan]

Hoping someone who knows about doctypes can help me out here. I am using
kid templates with turbogears, so my html file has the following as it's
first line.

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;

Using Jquery and the jquery calendar plugin have been no problem, and I
am also using MochiKit without problems. However, when I add in the
jquery corner plugin I get this error:


syntax error
jquery-corner.js (line 1)
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd;

Any clues, much appreciated!
Iain

[jQuery] Re: Keeping the calendar plug in open?

[iain duncan]

On Sun, 2007-07-10 at 19:32 +0100, Kelvin Luck wrote:
 Hi Iain,
 
 I'm not sure which calendar plugin you are talking about but your email 
 prompted me to add the functionality you describe to my datePicker 
 plugin (something I've been meaning to do for a very long time and 
 luckily had a spare bit of time today for).
 
 You can find the examples of this new functionality here:
 
 http://kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/inlineDatePicker.html
 http://kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/inlineDatePickerComplex.html
 
 And you will find documentation, downloads and many examples of the 
 plugin's homepage:
 
 http://kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/
 
 Hope that helps,
 
 Kelvin :)

Thanks Kelvin. I was refering to Marcs calendar, but it looks like your
date picker may be a better alternative for this use case. My perception
at a glance is that the date picker is a bit more light weight, would
you say that is true?

Iain

[jQuery] Normal way of positioning an element?

[iain duncan]

I feel like I must be missing something obvious in the docs, but while I
have found methods for finding out where an element is ( offset,
position ) I don't see an obvious jquery method for placing an
absolutely positioned element.

What is the recommended way? And might I humbly suggest to the docs
maintainers that this is a hole in the docs right now? It might be worth
a mention near the offset method as to how one would set that.

Thanks!
Iain