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AddThis button

Making the AddThis button pop-up more user-friendly with jQuery and hoverIntent

Posted Feb 18, 2010 - jQuery & Javascript - 0 comments - Bookmark & share this page!

The AddThis button is a popular social bookmarking & sharing all-in-one solution for site owners who wish to make their content visible to a wider audience.

Unfortunately, the button pop-up can be quite annoying as it appears as soon as the mouse is over it, even if by accident. With the help of jQuery and the hoverIntent plugin we can add a short delay to make it more user-friendly.

Drupal's primary and secondary tabs

Splitting Drupal's $tabs variable into primary and secondary template variables

Posted Feb 12, 2010 - Drupal - 0 comments - Bookmark & share this page!

Drupal provides the theming variable $tabs which contains the final HTML output of both the primary and secondary tabs.

Because of this, there's no direct way to theme the primary and secondary tabs separately. However, with a little trick we can split them into two separate variables and make them available to page.tpl.php for your custom theming.

Virtualbox running Windows XP and IE 6

Internet Explorer testing & debugging guide

Posted Sep 19, 2009 - Web browsers - 0 comments - Bookmark & share this page!

Internet Explorer (IE) can be a nightmare when it comes to making your sites cross-browser compatible, often resulting in long debugging sessions and gray hair.

This guide explains how to test your sites under different versions of IE as well as how to quickly fix the most common IE bugs. It also covers IE targeting with IE-only CSS selectors and conditional comments.