Re: [jQuery] Kinda funny way to getting jQuery some exposure

2007-03-30 Thread Brian Miller
Gaah! My eyes! Classic! I'm still giggling. - Brian That page with the email animations is awesome! It's like a web Chamber of Horrors :-) I think you won that comments debate. Paul Caton. ___ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com

Re: [jQuery] nightly builds

2007-03-29 Thread Brian Miller
It hasn't worked since the one time that you forced it (around r1485 or so). - Brian I think he means with the builds being generated. I think it's having problems building the right builds, again. --John On 3/29/07, Brandon Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of problems are you

Re: [jQuery] Plugins mailing list

2007-03-19 Thread Brian Miller
Plugins should still be *announced* here, though, so the people who don't subscribe to the plugins mailing list know that they exist. :) - Brian Hi everyone, It seems the new place to post plugin-related stuff is in the plugins mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I didn't even know about

Re: [jQuery] Custome selectors use : as seperator, which is an official character for id's

2007-03-09 Thread Brian Miller
I second this suggestion. Most other meta-languages allow backslash-escaping, I don't see why it would be a bad idea here. - Brian I didn't like the idea of hacking jQuery to make selectors with these special chars work, but as it turned out, that is what should be expected! From the CSS

Re: [jQuery] What is the status on the Ext port?

2007-03-05 Thread Brian Miller
Given that it would be Jack's call, I'd say no. Ext has a very Java-like OO design. It would be hard work to squeeze what he's doing into jQuery calling conventions. That doesn't rule out Jack surprising us and doing all that work anyway. But, that's not where I'd put my money if I were a

Re: [jQuery] .next() bug?

2007-02-28 Thread Brian Miller
It's hard enough to get everything working properly for documents that are well-formed. I don't think that it's worth the effort to force consistency in how jQuery handles broken documents. If you do anything on top of an invalid DOM, you can't make the results predictable. Even if you could,

Re: [jQuery] .next() bug?

2007-02-28 Thread Brian Miller
I see what you're saying. You're worried that because there's a difference here, there might be a differnce in a non-broken document that we haven't found yet. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it until/unless there's an actual use case that's having this same problem on a non-broken DOM. -

Re: [jQuery] Interface problem

2007-02-25 Thread Brian Miller
Is all your of your main code in a ready block? Just a guess, but it might be trying to operate on the DOM before it's loaded. - Brian Hi there, I've got a really odd problem with the interface plugin. The thing is that when I go to the specific site that uses Interface theres no problem,

Re: [jQuery] What would be the best way to...?

2007-02-24 Thread Brian Miller
. There might be a better way, but I think this should work. Glen On 2/23/07, Brian Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to replace a whole lot of input type=text elements on a page with textarea elements. (I have limited control over how the fields are generated.) The contents of the form

Re: [jQuery] ANNOUNCEMENT: jQuery Ext Partner to Deliver Integrated JavaScript UI, Features

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Miller
Ideally, there should eventually be one selector base that uses the best methods of both jQuery's selector engine and DomQuery. That way, there's no longer an issue of which one is used. - Brian Hi Rajesh, We’re investigating the possibility of supporting the use of DomQuery, Ext’s

Re: [jQuery] ANNOUNCEMENT: jQuery Ext Partner to Deliver Integrated JavaScript UI, Features

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Miller
above all else, you might produce a fairly large, blazing library. We're looking at these issues to try and come to a conclusion that will benefit the jQuery community. -- Yehuda On 2/20/07, Brian Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ideally, there should eventually be one selector base

Re: [jQuery] Google's Summer of Code

2007-02-16 Thread Brian Miller
Here's the thing. jQuery, along with plugins, covers a lot of what other libraries do. I just went looking around in dojo and YUI, and while one can do most of what they do by combining plugins, what's missing is the kind of bullet-proofing that people Alex Russell and Eric Miraglia have gotten

Re: [jQuery] Google's Summer of Code

2007-02-16 Thread Brian Miller
Actually, I think that the best thing to do would be to detect what the browser has, and use whatever's there transparently. If Canvas is there, use it. If not, try SVG. If there's no SVG, try VML. If there's no suitable graphics system in the browser, signal the user to download and install a

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Nightly Builds

2007-02-14 Thread Brian Miller
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! :) - Brian This is a re-post of a blog post written by Paul McLanahan: http://jquery.com/blog/2007/02/13/jquery-nightly-builds/ Hey Everyone - After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, we now have automated nightly builds of jQuery ready for

Re: [jQuery] how to simplify this

2007-02-12 Thread Brian Miller
Believe it or not, this isn't incredibly bad. One thing you should do is search for things by ID using the ID only. It's actually a bit faster. If you want to remind yourself of the tag type, put in a comment after the line. Another thing you can do to make this a bit cleaner is to use a comma

Re: [jQuery] ANN: Brandon Aaron Joins learningjquery.com

2007-02-01 Thread Brian Miller
You know... The folks over at Mootools refer to theirs as Mootorials. Maybe we should call them jQ-torials? :) - Brian Hello dear friends, Just a quick note to announce that Brandon Aaron -- regular contributor to this list, member of the jQuery development team, and plugin author --

Re: [jQuery] jquery.corner.js freezes IE6

2007-01-26 Thread Brian Miller
Is it this? http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/16/when-browsers-attack/ - Brian IE6 freezes, and I need to kill the proccess. After that, I visited Damn, it sure does. I'll have a look at it Juan. Interesting. It's this call that causes the problem: var h =

Re: [jQuery] jquery.corner.js freezes IE6

2007-01-26 Thread Brian Miller
This might be a better one: http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000892.html - Brian IE6 freezes, and I need to kill the proccess. After that, I visited Damn, it sure does. I'll have a look at it Juan. Interesting. It's this call that causes the problem: var h =

Re: [jQuery] Slow Selector... What should I do?

2007-01-17 Thread Brian Miller
You can comma-delimit the selector, so you can package up all the td elements you're looking for into one $ function. Also, if you limit your context (to, say, the table in question), it'll help speed things up. mytable = $(#mytable); FlexCells = $([EMAIL PROTECTED] + ShiftDate + ], [EMAIL

Re: [jQuery] Slow Selector... What should I do?

2007-01-17 Thread Brian Miller
:#someColdFusionVar#}); } I don't know the ShiftDates ahead of time, nor how many there will be. Can I still apply you possible solution? Thanks, Chris Brian Miller wrote: You can comma-delimit the selector, so you can package up all the td elements you're looking for into one $ function. Also

Re: [jQuery] Duplicating a row...

2006-12-21 Thread Brian Miller
This strikes me as a task where creating new elements may be less gremlin-prone than cloning. Michael Geary's Easy DOM Creation plugin might make it easier to write a function that creates the appropriate DOM tree branch. http://mg.to/2006/02/27/easy-dom-creation-for-jquery-and-prototype -

Re: [jQuery] More DOM Query Speed Tests

2006-12-19 Thread Brian Miller
looking for an ID (which should be unique) after getting the tags is worthless. Should we re-write the case of tag#id to use elem.getElementBYId(), and then remove the element if it's not the right tag? - Brian ___ jQuery mailing list

Re: [jQuery] Check element visibility

2006-12-13 Thread Brian Miller
$(':visible', this).length == 0 (Or 1, if the root of the context is returned, which I'm not sure of.) Note: This will be kind of inefficient if you're working with a big DOM tree. - Brian Hello all, How can I check if a given element is visible or not (i.e. has display:block). I have

Re: [jQuery] Lost

2006-12-07 Thread Brian Miller
Relax, Anrdea. :) Lots of things get lost in mailing lists. The style is very good. There's a lot to like about it. I do have some suggestions, though. 1. You should probably measure out the screen of the browser (dimensions.js can help here), and expand the windows to use more of the

Re: [jQuery] current jQuery version

2006-12-07 Thread Brian Miller
You know, we see this request a lot. John (or somebody), can you cron-job a nightly build? I don't want to be pushy or anything, but I think that would make a bunch of people very happy. - Brian well, http://jquery.com/src/jquery-svn.js is not the current version (that's the problem).

Re: [jQuery] Efforts to Convert Folks to jQuery

2006-12-07 Thread Brian Miller
Keep in mind that Bob Ippolito is a Python guru, and he specifically wrote mochikit to make JS behave a bit more like Python. To him, any language sucks if it uses C-family idioms. :) We can choose to be more positive, using a phrase like, Makes programming Web 2.0 fun! Or, something. - Brian

Re: [jQuery] Departure

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Miller
Hey, don't look at it as us vs. them. One of the great things about jQuery is that it plays well with others. I use them together for a bunch of things, and there's no reason why you can't introduce it for tasks where it's well suited. After all, isn't Web 2.0 all about mashups? :) Good luck

Re: [jQuery] HI

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Miller
Oops! I guess I jumped the gun a little, thanks for clearing that up. I actually knew that, but I responded without thinking it through... - Brian On 04/12/06, Brian Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The id and name attributes must always be unique on a form. It's breaking because you made

Re: [jQuery] HI

2006-12-03 Thread Brian Miller
The id and name attributes must always be unique on a form. It's breaking because you made them the same. They *must* be different, even if they are on different forms. - Brian hi,everyone I find use jQ, one page have two form, but the form id is diff. i find

Re: [jQuery] Designing for reuse

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Miller
Heh, I should have read this first, before suggesting it myself. *blush* - Brian On 01/12/06, Christof Donat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Controller set of methods is returned.. $('#grid').grid().data(data).drig().show() $('#grid').grid().scrollToRow(6).drig().css(border, 1px) A

Re: [jQuery] Bug: display: none plus getComputedStyle in Safari

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Miller
Is this patch generalized enough to add to the core? Just a thought... - Brian John Resig schrieb: Unfortunately, the hack to work around that is too monstrous to comprehend. For now, it works fine in Safari for most cases, and that's what matters. That is exactly the problem I have. So I

Re: [jQuery] jQuery rejected by VirtualMart author

2006-11-26 Thread Brian Miller
The solution is actually relatively simple. If enough people who depend on the software request it, they'll give it more consideration. It's easy to rebuff one person. It's harder to to that to a larger chunk of the user community. What I would do to start, though, is answer his points

Re: [jQuery] jQuery 1.1 by the end of Nov

2006-11-15 Thread Brian Miller
Personally, I'm noticing a lot of requests for XML namespace selection in the parser. Can we get that into 1.1? Apperently, making $('myns:div') would raise holy hell because it would clash with the pseudos, but $('myns|div') might be doable. Can we make $('myns:div') work if there's no pseudo

Re: [jQuery] jQuery 1.1 by the end of Nov

2006-11-15 Thread Brian Miller
I'm not suggesting bloat here, Rik. I think that, at the very least, support for $('myns|whatever') is core stuff, and is doable without a lot of code. Since it's about the basic functionality of selection, I think that it's one of the few things that *shouldn't* be a plugin. I won't have time

Re: [jQuery] Allow onclick (etc) on disabled input

2006-11-08 Thread Brian Miller
One thing you can do is not use disabled at all. If you decorate the control like it's disabled, and leave it with an ID (so jquery can find it) but no name, it will be an unsuccessful control, and won't send. If someone enters something in the field, you can use $('myinput').attr('name',

Re: [jQuery] Building a Community (was: Re: New way of animating

2006-11-07 Thread Brian Miller
I second that notion! Please create a contrib or an incoming branch in SVN, and allow anyone to drop plugins in there. A bunch of us can take turns vetting the plugins to make sure that they're not spam or crap. - Brian Rey Bango wrote: Hi Dan, Still, I suppose if you make enough examples

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Metadata Plugin

2006-11-02 Thread Brian Miller
Keep in mind that there are characters allowed in classes that are not allowed in the CSS spec for selection of classes. In other words, if you include a paren or a bracket in a class, it can't be styled. Therefore, you can use it for script, without worrying that someone will accidently style

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Metadata Plugin

2006-11-02 Thread Brian Miller
In the original discussion about validation, I had suggested using label for= as a way to associate validation with form elements, while making the notation semantically separate from the form element. It would be great to do that for other elements, but I'm pretty sure that the HTML spec calls

Re: [jQuery] Xpath and tab selection

2006-11-02 Thread Brian Miller
Darius, $= means attribute ends with. Check out http://jquery.com/docs/Base/Expression/CSS/ , the Supported, but different section. Taking a close look at the selection documentation might also help you with item #2 a bit. You're going to have to figure out how to text-match your relative URL

Re: [jQuery] Plugin method question

2006-10-31 Thread Brian Miller
Personally, I'd rather use a div or span for that sort of thing, rather than a code tag. div class=accordion_initaccordion:false,showSpeed:'slow',hideAll:true/div Then, style div.accordion_init to be hidden, and you get the same effect without misusing the code tag. - Brian Which would work

Re: [jQuery] Plugin method question

2006-10-31 Thread Brian Miller
, was to include a script tag that only defined an object for containing the parameters. That might be a bit cleaner and easier. - Brian Brian Miller schrieb: Personally, I'd rather use a div or span for that sort of thing, rather than a code tag. div class=accordion_initaccordion:false,showSpeed

Re: [jQuery] siblings() expression bug?

2006-10-26 Thread Brian Miller
Perhaps you're right. But, in the mean time, you could always use $('label').siblings().find('input,textarea').addClass('blah'); - Brian Hey, this is my first post to discuss@ and I'm new to jQuery though I'm loving it. I don't know if this is a bug or not... Shouldn't

Re: [jQuery] Expressions: Search for children within context

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Miller
Two thoughts: $( '* dt', context ); OR Just put an ID on the particulat dl that you want to use as the context. :) $( dl#foo dt ); - Brian Hi jQueryians, how do I search for a children within a context? In other words, how to translate this: $(context).children(dt)... into

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Kinda Plugin: every

2006-10-19 Thread Brian Miller
While it's not very jQuery-like, timers lend themselves to registration. I would attach an object to window or a more permanently/easily available object. This way, you don't have to leave closures around just to keep references to the timers, just so you can stop them later. Also, if you're

Re: [jQuery] jquery snapshots

2006-10-17 Thread Brian Miller
Which begs the question: Why NOT generate a nightly build? It should take all of 5 minutes to edit the crontab to make it happen. :) Not nightly, but updated now and then: http://jquery.com/src/jquery-svn.js -- Jörn ___ jQuery mailing list

Re: [jQuery] jQuery API discussion

2006-10-16 Thread Brian Miller
I think that there's a simpler answer to this. If we're going to overhaul the API that much, we need to do three things. 1. Talk it out thoroughly, and make sure we get it right this time. 2. Publish a new full release of jQuery (2.0). 3. Put all of the breaking changes at the top of the README.

Re: [jQuery] jQuery API discussion

2006-10-16 Thread Brian Miller
Keep in mind that the namespacing that I'm suggesting is solely for readability, and should only be used where it makes things more readable. You're right that it might put some bumps into the chaining, but I think that making the calls non-colliding and more natural-language-y outweighs that.

Re: [jQuery] IE7 and document.ready

2006-10-10 Thread Brian Miller
Yes, $(document).ready() should only happen once - when the document is first ready. What you're using for magic would infuriate developers on most other projects! :) You should have a separate function for an ajax callback to do whatever you're doing, even if it's the same code, and you're

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Browser Detection

2006-10-10 Thread Brian Miller
script. It's big, but probably not that bad when packed (although, you might have to lint it and pick out the little things for it to pack successfully). - Brian On 09/10/06, Brian Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam, if that's a problem with your user base, then there are issues that go beyond

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Browser Detection

2006-10-09 Thread Brian Miller
I'm inclined to disagree. I believe that one should use object detection for cases in which they are invoking that object for it's functionality. A prime example is the XHR (although MS may be messing around with that in IE7). But, if one is best served by simply knowing what browser we are

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Browser Detection

2006-10-09 Thread Brian Miller
, Brian Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm inclined to disagree. I believe that one should use object detection for cases in which they are invoking that object for it's functionality. A prime example is the XHR (although MS may be messing around with that in IE7). But, if one is best served

Re: [jQuery] How to implement file upload using AJAX?

2006-10-09 Thread Brian Miller
You can't use ajax to send files. It's not supported because it's not permitted. The libraries that do it (e.g. Yahoo UI) create a hidden iframe on the fly, with a form inside the iframe (that has a file upload control), which gets submitted. It's as much of a pain as it sounds like it is.

Re: [jQuery] jQuery Plugin question

2006-10-04 Thread Brian Miller
Create an empty object, pass it to the .each() block, and add each id as a property of it as you go. My first crack (which is probably hopelessly b0rked, but may get the point across...): var myInputs = {}; function sliderCallback { myInputs[this.id].rangeEl =

Re: [jQuery] Full featured form validation library in jQuery?

2006-10-03 Thread Brian Miller
That's a lot of stuff! Seriously, I think that what is being requested here, more than anything else, is organization. Can we start grouping our code into plugin packs, or something? One for forms and friends, one for all kinds of visual effects (perhaps a package that groups the best of the