Tagged articles - JQuery

HTML5 comes with a lot of handy features which can really improve user experience of your web application significantly if you use them wisely. Caching cold data on the client, such as lookups can significantly save the amount of traffic, page load time and even you backed services load. One of the HTML5 features that can help you do this are sessionStorage and localStorage...read more

Minification of Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) and Java Script (JS) should be on a TODO list for every web application. The minification of CSS and JS can be easily one on the runtime with ASP.NET bundling which is build in in ASP.NET framework, but in case of distributing your resource files over CDN you cannot use the runtime minification. You physical files need to be minified...read more

I recently needed to copy some value from the web UI to clients clipboard. Since this is not something you often need to use, I googled a little bit and found that this is easy to do with document.execCommand...read more

Image resizing is considered as a server side operation as JavaScript and HTML were not so sophisticated and HTML5 support was not widely adopted for quite some time. even now, some features are not equally supported by all major browsers. Anyhow, HTML5 is here to stay and over time we will get more and more features supported by all browsers. ...read more

To make it easier for your customers to find your store location it is really important to show them where you are, but what can make even better impact is to show them where you are based on their current location and to guide them to you. GoogleMaps are a powerful tool for that, but you have to spend some time (more or less) to find code snippets and understand how to invoke their API, add the proper references, handle exceptions which might occur during the communication between your website and GoogleMaps API etc. ...read more

I've used GoogleMaps on several web projects and it seemed to me that I'm repeating a lot of code used in the previous projects which lead me to write a common Javascript library to help me easily reuse the code by only copying the JavaScript library to a project or referencing it from CDN. I could not think of a better way to build this library than to use jQuery and build a pligin for this. ...read more

Very often when you are dealing with content from 3rd party like tweets from Twitter of Facebook posts and comments you might end up with some URL inside the content. On both Twitter or Facebook or any other social network, links inside text comments are replaces with anchor tags to those URLs. In order to keep the same user experience and make it more useful o your side where you are serving the content from the other party it is recommended that you do the same. ...read more

Recently I started a small free service app for extracting icons from application files .exe and .dll. It is called IconExtract and it is hosted at http://iconextract.dejanstojanovic.net/ It basically takes application file you submit, extracts icons and returns them zipped, so beside long running upload there is some processing on the back-end when file is uploaded as well. ...read more

Reponsive jQuery plugin for browsing public albums of a Facebook account. Plugin is suitable for both desktop and mobile websites....read more

Before CSS3 coming out, if you needed to change the layout programatically when window size is changed you would have to write a small JavaScript or JQuery to handle window resize event and perform some action on the DOM to addapt your layout. In case you would use JQuery (which is most of the cases as I do not remember last time I wrotw plain JavaScript code) you would have to hook to window resize event and handle every resize. Based on your condition you would apply some CSS to specific element or strip style from it. ...read more

Recently I'we been working with HTML canvas by using cropper jQuery plugin http://fengyuanchen.github.io/cropper. It was working fine until I had to load images from Facebook. As soon as I loaded image from facebook, script was crashing with a security error: ...read more

For someone who works in C#, extension methods are one really useful feature introduced in .NET framework. I use extension methods a lot because they are so nicely integrated with intellisense and you can access them really easy. ...read more

HTML5 is awesome for desktop websites and believe it or not, even more awesome for mobile devices. In the following article, I'll show you few HTML5 APIs which can be invoked from JavaScript which directly interact with your mobile device, so let's start. Geolocation API ...read more

Recently I've started JQuery plugin project on GitHub and decided to provide examples via JSFiddler. I could easily take latest files and host it on the same host as this blog but that would make a headache for me as I would have to update files on my host as soon as I update file in GitHub. So I googled a little bit and found a solution...read more

Database table changes are usually not displayed right away in an application, escecially if it is a web application. With HTML5 and Web API that is about to change...read more