Monthly Archives: April 2009

Tackling Safari’s slow gif “feature” with jQuery

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Chris Williams

Safari’s WebKit has a funny behav­ior of dis­play­ing ani­mated gif files at a lower frame rate than Firefox. From what I can tell, WebKit (includ­ing Google Chrome) caps the ani­mated gif frame rates at 10fps. While it may be faster than some IE6 … Continue read­ing →

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jQuery missing layerX

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Chris Williams

Getting the Mouse posi­tion in jQuery is very sim­ple. However, get­ting the posi­tion from within an ele­ment take some extra steps. Normally, a javascript event such as onmouse­move would use event.layerX and event.layerY to get the coor­di­nates of our mouse when it moves. … Continue read­ing →

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jQuery Triptych Slideshow

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Chris Williams

My pre­vi­ous how-​to showed a new way to look at the slider func­tion fea­tured at the Apple​.com/​mac site. This one goes to Apple once again and their bucket ads shown in the iTunes Music Store. The buck­ets are what I’m call­ing … Continue read­ing →

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