Spicy Jam?

Comments and IE6

andy.creed — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:02:59 +0000

Yesterday I came up against and issue with IE6 that I hadn’t notice before - at least not directly. When I construct my xhtml I like to add a comment to the end of the closing div tag to aid readability

However IE6 will sometimes treats this as a 1px padding for the containing div.
So long live FF and now IE7 (which doesn’t do this)

Flash Video Player 3

simonplend — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:42:38 +0000

Flash video is my flavour of choice when it comes to video on the web. Extremely flexible, simple and with Flash Player being the most popular browser plugin, it seems to me like a real winner. I hate a lot of the ways people apply Flash, but for me it can’t be beaten when it comes to web video. So, when doing research for a project today I was excited to see that a new version of the Flash Video Player (Creative Commons Licensed) has just been released. Well hoorah and huzzah!

Flash Video Player 3 introduces XSPF/RSS playlists, tons of documentation on the ActionScript/JavaScript API… oh, and the whole thing’s been rewritten to boot! I’m having a look through all the code right now and it looks very nicely organised - a true show of how great OSS can be!

Removing dashed boxes from around links

andy.creed — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:06:56 +0000

Have you ever noticed with Firefox that whenever you click on a link a dotted/dashed box appears around that link?

Well here’s how to get around it - I think there are other methods using .htc files but the one I use is purely CSS based and is easily added to your CSS file.

This is it »

a:focus {user-focus: none; outline: none; -moz-user-focus: none; -moz-outline: none; }

Hope it helps

A New Order

simonplend — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:41:54 +0000

Andy has kindly asked me to contribute to Spicy Jam, so here’s my first post. I’m a freelance web developer based in the South West, focusing mostly on PHP/MySQL solutions with a bit of JavaScript and DOM scripting trickery chucked in for extra flavour. Hopefully I’ll be able to share some useful information and possibly even dispense some wisdom… who knows?!

I’ve recently released a light little bit of JavaScript called TargetOrder under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. The aim of TargetOrder is to provide an easy-to-implement way of sorting tables of data in a user friendly fashion.

The script is totally unobtrusive, meaning you won’t have to ruin your pretty (X)HTML with lots of nasty inline JavaScript. Simply drop the files in place, add a tiny bit of extra (X)HTML markup and you’re ready to roll. Anyways, enough of the marketing guff. I’d love to hear your feedback on this script, so please comment away!

d.construct 2006 Brighton

andy.creed — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:11:35 +0000

A short while ago (8th Sept) I attended the second d.construct in Brighton. Organised by Clear:left

It had some interesting speakers from Amazon, Yahoo!, Google and elsewhere. The theme of the conference was aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. With particluar emphasis to Mashups, APIs and Web services. All good stuff.

The whole day was packed into a tight schedule with the speakers using all their time - but the day was kept ticking over well by the organisers ending in a party at the Terraces on the sea-front.

Looking forward to next year.

Welcome to Spicy Jam

andy.creed — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:08:20 +0000

This is the first post on Spicy Jam. So for those of you reading this - welcome. For those of you who found this site - congratulations - because it’s only been up 10 minutes.