Flash Display Fixes

Reference on Friday, July 25th, 2008

Displaying Flash in a browser sometimes causes display issues. Two common ones are extra space under the object and another is an outline around the object in Firefox 3.

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ActionScript 2 to 3 Object Properties

Reference on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

In ActionScript 3 accessing your favorite object properties no longer require underscores as they did in AS 2. Here are some examples that list the previous and current conventions.

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Random Functions

Reference on Monday, July 21st, 2008

Random text or images is an easy feature to deploy that can develop interest on a project. Any application can benefit from not presenting the same information over and over during every visit. I have listed examples in JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, and Coldfusion.

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Disable Safari’s Textarea Grip

Reference on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

A while ago an update to Safari enabled users to drag the bottom right corner of a text area and re size it to their hearts delight.

While some users may have good reason to increase the area, the majority of users would hardly notice the new feature let alone take advantage of it. Still others would simply abuse it and expand it to an unreasonable proportion.

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Access Cascading Styles with JavaScript

Reference on Monday, July 14th, 2008

Here is a reference table that displays the CSS equivalent in JavaScript.

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