'Javascript' Category

• How to Create Javascript Catfish Sliding Promotions

  An effective way to advertise or promote a product is the Catfish pop-up, so
  called because it lies on the bottom of the browser. Less annoying than fullblown pop-ups and to me much better than adverising embedded within content. I’ve mocked up two example pages a transparency example and an example form.

  February 13th, 2007

• Keeping Track Of The Referrer In Javascript

  This Javascript code will add a handler to a cancel button on a form, so that when the button is clicked the user is returned to the page that requested the form.
  This is useful when you have more than one route to a form, such as an edit link on a table or an edit [...]

  July 11th, 2006

• Update Copyright Dates using JavaScript and Clean Markup

  Make “Copyright 2006″ become “Copyright 2006-2007″ when 2007 arrives.
  Rather than update copyright dates by hand or with server side code, it’s sometimes useful to use Javascript.

  May 18th, 2006

• Place Timezone information into a cookie with JavaScript

  This JavaScript will pick up the users timezone offset and place it nto a cookie. This is useful for when you want to diaply times in your web application taking the users location into account.
  As the timezone is placed in a cookie it can be extracted by any serverside scripting technology. Javascript returns the timezone [...]

  March 3rd, 2006