JavaScript

Firefox 3.5 was recently released, and offers significant updates. If you have not upgraded yet, you should do so now. In the LowPro community, we have been tracking compatibility with the upcoming Firefox. The existing LowPro was compatible with Firefox 3.5RC2, but incompatible with the final release of Firefox 3.5. So, if you are using LowPro, you should upgrade with a new version of LowPro today. You can either go for Dan Webb’s original version or try out my minification-friendly fork (there is a minified version in dist). ...

Tonight I gave a lightweight introduction to Low Pro for Prototype at the Öresund JavaScript meetup. For those that missed it, or just want to study the example again, you can see the slides as a PDF, see the sample or download a zip file with everything. The meetup was very informal and there were also two other presentations: Mats Bryntse gave an overview of “What’s new in EcmaScript 3.1” and Rasmus Olausson showed us a “Hello world with Google Web Toolkit” as well as how to beat his Sudoku webapp :-) ...

Every once in awhile you come across one of those Internet Explorer 6 issues that tries it’s hardest to be really annoying. Today was one of those days with IE. Having flown out to work directly with a client’s web team yesterday, I spent some time today cursing at IE6 and trying to deal with a weird flickering of the webpage, apparently caused by hovering over a menu. After about 40 minutes, I had the palm–meets–forehead “heureka” moment, and recognised that the bug I was seeing was in fact the infamous IE6 background flicker bug, which I’ve exterminated on other sites before. ...