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![New MooTools Plugin: ElementFilter]()
New MooTools Plugin: ElementFilter
My new MooTools plugin, ElementFilter, provides a great way for you to allow users to search through the text of any mix of elements. Simply provide a text input box and ElementFilter does the rest of the work. The XHTML I've used a list for this example...
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Web 0.2 in the Web 2.0 World
I grew up in the time of web 0.2. Counters, GeoCities, and guestbooks ruled the web world with an iron fist. CSS was the new technology. "Bookmark This Page" had taken over the JavaScript world. And lastly, IE4's interface was beautifying desktop...
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Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP
Grabbing emails from your Gmail account using PHP is probably easier than you think. Armed with PHP and its IMAP extension, you can retrieve emails from your Gmail account in no time! Just for fun, I'll be using the MooTools Fx.Accordion plugin...
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Disallow Robots Using Robots.txt
I develop customer websites on a publicly accessible web server so that my customers may check the progress of their website at any given time. I could use .htaccess to require username and password for the site but then I'm constantly needing to remind...
![Highlighter: A MooTools Search & Highlight Plugin]()
Highlighter: A MooTools Search & Highlight Plugin
Searching within the page is a major browser functionality, but what if we could code a search box in JavaScript that would do the same thing? I set out to do that using MooTools and ended up with a pretty decent solution. The MooTools JavaScript Class The...
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![MooTools, Framework Compatibility, and Dollar $afe Mode]()
MooTools, Framework Compatibility, and Dollar $afe Mode
MooTools 1.2.3 was released on June 19, 2009. With this release, MooTools implemented Dollar Safe Mode. Essentially, MooTools no longer requires the $ function for its own purposes. Valerio Proietti writes about Dollar Safe Mode on the MooTools blog but I'll give...
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JavaScript’s window.location
Need current browser location information? Keep in mind that the JavaScript's window.location object gives you all of that information about the window's current location. Javascript Window Properties for:https://davidwalsh.name:80/article.php?s=david+walsh+blog#myAnchor Javascript Redirect How can this be used? One example is doing a JavaScript redirect: Or you could use it to compare...
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Work Efficiently with jEdit Macros
As I've mentioned in the past, my text editor of choice is jEdit. jEdit is an all purpose text editor with numerous features that allow you to code more efficiently. One of those features is the jEdit macro. jEdit comes bundled with...
![Adding the XPI MIME Type for Firefox Extension Installs]()
Adding the XPI MIME Type for Firefox Extension Installs
Yesterday I posted version 0.1 of the David Walsh Blog Toolbar for Firefox. Unfortunately that led to an awkward conversation with my .htaccess file. .htaccess: I have no idea what to do with this. me: I want the toolbar to install when they request this file. .htaccess...
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David Walsh Blog Firefox Toolbar
Update: The toolbar will now attempt to install when you click the link. .htaccess FTW! I spent a few hours on Saturday doing something I've always wanted to learn how to do -- create a Mozilla Firefox extension ("addon"/plugin). I wanted to start with...
