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Lightview not functioning

I’ve used Lightview several times now and most times it’s worked straight away. This time I had a few issues. First off, the script files didn’t live in the usual place on the website, so I had to make sure I targeted them correctly so that effects.js, part of the scriptaculous / prototype library was active. It’s easy enough to test that a file is loading using Firebug in Firefox or the new Developer tools in Safari.

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Wed, January 13 2010 » Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments

New website, small contribution made

A new website for Acupuncture and Shiatsu practitioner Fiona Hurlock has just gone live at www.fionahurlock.com.
Built and designed by Hughes Design, I was asked to assist with some menus on the treatment page.

The menus were quickly implemented using scriptaculous and css so that the menu element changed colour on hover and the arrow to the [...]

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Thu, June 25 2009 » PHP, Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments

scriptaculous effects failing

If an effect using scriptaculous fails it could be due to it being applied to an element that is hidden (display: none) If the display is set within a css file it needs to be moved to be inline on the element. ie <div style=”display: none”>
The effect should then work.
Thanks to the notes on Effect.Appear [...]

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Fri, June 19 2009 » Web developing, ajax / javascript » No Comments