Alexandru Dinulescu's Thoughts

JQuery Negation

Basically this is a negation of the following, god damnit my head hurts

Oh well new day, new learned things. God Bless Amerika

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After a week of work, I finished the modifications to the this theme, based on the Inanis Theme MOD. This theme is used on both my blogs and so far it works good. I havent encountered any issues so i decided to release the files. Compared to V1.3 which can be found here, this version has a shitload of improvements such as: (taken from readme)

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After working on the google shortcuts for a while, i decided to open up IE 8 and see if the application works or not. I was surprised and started to do the old alert("hax") thing every dozen lines. The problem is with the $(window).keypress(function(e){}). It seems that IE doesnt understand at all the $(window) property at all when it comes with keypress/keydown/keyup events.

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In this post I will elaborate and add more functionality to a previous post of mine found here here. Basically i have added more functionality to the page, such as left / right key navigation, number key functionality, enter/escape key functionality, and of course the entire suite of conditions needed so the code works properly.

I have tried to build each functionality as a module, which you can add and remove, however in order to have the search function work well with the tab functionality and switching, then some interdependence was needed.

the XHTML

The XHTML is not different from the last version, the only thing different is a few bits and pieces of additions, and more importantly a couple of new lists so we can have a tab functionality. Other than that, there were no major changes.

the CSS

As with the first version this CSS is very basic however you can style it as you wish, probably in the future i may add some nicer styles to the project but for now, since it’s just a tutorial thingy, i think what we have is quite enough.

the JS

The JS suffered major changes, (of course right, we’re building a JS application here). It is kinda hard to explain everything in the post, but all the lines (almost all the lines) are heavily commented within the JS file itself, so please refer to that file for exact instructions and explanations.

The files can also be found online Here and a zip file can be downloaded from here

In part 3 of the series i will try to enlarge the search possiblity to include more than 1 letter

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Did it happen that when you use an animation such as fadeIn()/fadeOut() on a LCD screen, that has windows cleratype on (this happens automatically in windows vista+ but can be set on and off in windows XP), on IE (all versions), the text is not antialised anymore. This is due to the filter attribute IE browsers use to make the cleartype/stuff.

The solution is relatively simple, like putting a function callback on the fade in()/fadeOut() such as:

JQuery Code

It’s not a perfect solution, and it may be a bit laggy and you can still SEE THE TEXT BEING CLEARTYPED, but at least it wont stay without cleartype and look like shit. Also this is the only way to do it until jQuery incorporates it’s own fix to counter IE‘s behavior.