Software As She’s Developed

This article by Nick Zakas, covering some technical issues in iframe loading, triggered me to surface a JQuery IFrame plugin I made a little while ago, which supports loading IFrames. (I did tweet it at the time, though I’ve since changed the location.) JQuery IFrame plugin The plugin basically tells you, the programmer of the parent [...]

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This has been a while coming, but I made a little “yet another modal dialog lightbox JQuery plugin” thing this week. Demo and Download for Modal Dialog – JQuery Plugin It was driven by TiddlyDocs, but I’ve been wanting one anyway for a while. Mostly because lightbox libraries generally do some hocus-pocus on page load, like applying [...]

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TiddlyWeb-JQuery Comments Plugin – Screencast @ Vimeo I’ve extracted from Scrumptious a nested comments plugin you can integrate into any POJA (plain ol’ Javascript app). You can find it here in the repo: TiddlyWeb-JQuery Comments Plugin. As the README explains, usage is a one-liner once you’ve set it up. Just do $(selector).comments(”topic”). The topic is an identifier [...]

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I’ve been creating a drawing plugin for TiddlyWiki (SVN trunk). It delegates the actual drawing editing to Project Draw (docs; demo), a browser-based drawing editor from Autodesk Labs. Here’s a screencast: TiddlyWiki Drawing Plugin based on Project Draw from Michael Mahemoff on Vimeo. Autodesk Labs’ Project Draw editor looks like this: … and the tool has a nice set [...]

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I recently explained how I created my first Greasemonkey script as an experiment, then converted it to a standalone Firefox plugin/extension/add-on using an automated tool. Official homepage here. The experiment continues, as I subsequently submitted it to Mozilla, and it’s now been approved as an official plugin. I’ve been curious about the process people go through [...]

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You’ve probably noticed the buzz around Flock, a browser built on Firefox. Information’s limited, but it seems to pick up on the “social” buzzword – tagging, annotations, RSS etc. Thing is, all of these things are possible in Firefox too via extensions. But extensions haven’t really taken off, and the reason is, quite frankly, poor [...]

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