Re: Show off your HTML/Javascript cleverness

2014-08-31 Thread Ben Vinnerd
Quick way would probably be to write some JS to clear/unset the radio buttons where the user clicks one that would conflict with them. e.g. User clicks Course 1/T1, then Course 1/T2. The 1st radio button that the user selected (course 1/T1) would now be cleared/unset. The flash looking solution w

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread Ben Vinnerd
What if it contains \ ? :) Seriously though, I'd assumed that OP (Dave) didn't want to make any changes to the HTML he'd taken from the other website - although I may be wrong. On 21 May 2013 14:06, Philip Skinner wrote: > \ > > > On 05/21/2013 02:28 PM, Ben Vinn

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread Ben Vinnerd
What if the HTML contains single or double quotes? On 21 May 2013 13:14, Philip Skinner wrote: > You can specify the content of an iframe using a javascript call in the > src: > > > > > On 05/21/2013 01:57 PM, Ben Vinnerd wrote: > >> You could try putting it in

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread Ben Vinnerd
You could try putting it in (which doesn't support inline html, so you'd have to load it with src="/path/to/buggered_html_loader") On 21 May 2013 12:31, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question > but it might be part of the solution.

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Ben Vinnerd
On 14 May 2013 15:02, Dominic Humphries wrote: > 50 miles? Luxury! I have to do sixty! :) > > Indeed. My previous contract was 223 miles, each way! (I became Travelodge guest of the year during that gig!! lol)

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Ben Vinnerd
As others have said, re: WFH. I'm a Perl contractor (about to finish a contract in a few weeks time), and it amazes me of the number of clients who do not like WFH. I have to travel 50 miles per day to get to my clients office (and back) - the overwhelming majority of the time I can do exactly the

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Ben Vinnerd
+1 on wkhtml2pdf. I've used it in the past, it's awesome. Didn't know about PDF::WebKit, will have to check that out! On 21 April 2013 14:11, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote: > On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote: > > In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something >> I >>

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programmer

2013-03-07 Thread Ben Vinnerd
On 7 March 2013 17:09, Peter Corlett wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:31:48PM +0000, Ben Vinnerd wrote: > > On 6 March 2013 18:54, Peter Corlett wrote: > >> Don't typecast yourself as a Perl developer, as that just limits what > roles > >> you can do. >

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programmer

2013-03-07 Thread Ben Vinnerd
On 6 March 2013 18:54, Peter Corlett wrote: > Don't typecast yourself as a Perl developer, as that just limits what > roles you > can do. > It depends on who you're trying to market yourself/your company to. Some companies are specifically looking for a Perl developer, therefore it's a good id

[Contract] 3 monther in Kent

2013-02-23 Thread Ben Vinnerd
Hi, One of my clients are looking for a Perl dev for a 3 month contract to start in March/April. I'd do it myself but unfortunately I'm currently in a contract elsewhere! I can't tell you much about it as they didn't go into hardly any detail other than it's coding in Perl for an "RTI project", s