Ars Aranea » DHTML

Cookie separation in modern browsers

Skippy — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:23:49 +0000

A short analysis of how modern browsers separate session cookies between their different instances.

Special characters, on the fly

Skippy — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:08:30 +0000

Are you away from your regular computer or notebook and you find yourself in need to generate certain special characters for a webpage? The solution is simple: use a bookmarklet that will bind those characters to certain keyboard shortcuts.

Hostile CSS delivery

Skippy — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:11:27 +0000

Do you think CSS Zen Garden is a challenge? That's only because you haven't tried styling an ODP editor profile...

Car crusher drop shadows

Skippy — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:01:49 +0000

A trick that expands upon the rounded corners technique, allowing you to create drop shadows all around a variable width box.

CSS image hover captions

Skippy — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:07:17 +0000

How to create image captions that appear only when the mouse pointer hovers over the image, entirely with CSS (ie. no JavaScript). Great for stylish photo galleries.

AJAX: what is it good for

Skippy — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:26:24 +0000

Chris McEvoy did a spoof of a well known Alertbox article aimed at frames, authored by usability guru Jakob Nielsen, and redirected it towards AJAX. Unsuprisingly, AJAX came out of the clinch looking rather bad.

Communicating between browser windows

Skippy — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:20:58 +0000

How to communicate between separate browser windows in real time, using cookies set from JavaScript. Obviously, it only works among windows opened in the same domain.

Sidebar Slider

Skippy — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:21:02 +0000

This WordPress plugin makes block elements slide up and down as you scroll through a page, so you can always have the sidebar, for instance, within easy reach.

New canvas extension kicks serious butt

Skippy — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:49:07 +0000

Altough still currently just a working draft, the new <canvas> tag proposed by WhatWG.org has the potential to kill off Java applets and Flash for good.

Internet Explorer: scrollTop vs DOCTYPE

Skippy — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:11:39 +0000

Using DOCTYPE declarations disables document.body.scrollTop in Internet Explorer, making it always return zero. You have to resort to document.documentElement.scrollTop instead.

JS Toggle Boxes

Skippy — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:20:01 +0000

This WordPress plugin reduces clutter by placing on/off JavaScript toggles on the page elements of your choice.

Smiley JS Buttons

Skippy — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:27:47 +0000

This WordPress plugin allows you to display all the smilies in the default WP set as images next to your comment field. When you click on one of them it appends the code needed to produce that smiley to the comment field.