Key events, window.open, and popup blockers

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Recently, I was attempting to open a window/tab using JavaScript from a key handler and the popup blocker in Firefox prevented it from opening. This was slightly surprising since the same code was working from within an onclick handler and the domain of the window to be opened was identical. Here’s an example window.open: window.open(‘http://bustoutsolutions.com/’, [...]

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jQuery UI Looking Good

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jQuery UI was released Sunday night. The demos look pretty nice and quite similar to some of the work Bust Out has been doing recently for some photography and design sites. I’m looking forward to see where the jQuery team take this library, as well as the effects this release might have on some of [...]

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A browser UI trick using setTimeout

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Recently, when working on a DHTML slideshow based on Prototype and script.aculo.us, I ran into a problem with JavaScript and updates to the page UI. I intended the portfolio code to do the following: hide the current image replace the current image with a new image fade in the new image However, in my first [...]

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