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Rich Text Editor - Second Iteration

( CSS and Javascript )

linky linky
I’ve moved to an OO design, using DOM, Event listeners and made it sexier - I faced some interesting challenges along the way.
One key thing I picked up was how to link an event to a specific object, i’ve seen many different attempts at doing this -
Some use global variables to keep references of […]

simple cross browser rich text editor

I’ve looked in the past on multiple occasions to find a simple no-frills rich text editor and come up blank.
Of course there a good open-source fully-featured rte’s like tinyMCE and FckEditor, but they are a bit overkill for a simple editor. I found this one that comes close to what I was wanting […]

TextMate w00t

I’m just scratching the surface of what you can do with TextMate
There’s much more
It’s pretty cool how you can create your own bundles with Regular Expressions. I need to practice those..
A great African Christmas Medoly

Before XMLHttpRequest.. there was iframe

I’m working on a search control at the moment, the current flow is:
A javascript function on page1 takes your input and set’s an iframe’s src=”page2″
page2 either
writes a javascript function to send back a single result to page1
OR launches page3 in a ModalDialog Which contains an […]

Rails Development on Leopard

( Rails )

Mac OS X Leopard comes with Java, Ruby and Rails out of the box, Xcode is also on the disk as an optional installer, which among other things contains a GCC compiler.
Just one command line away from the most current version of rails.

gem update rails –include-dependecies

I’m not sure why Leopard ships with Rails and no […]