This is just a note for other developers searching on the same issue, as I didn’t find anything online when I was looking for ideas. jQuery UI Sortable is a great way to work with drag and drop web interfaces but I found it was running painfully slow in Firefox. It was snappy in Chrome,… Continue reading jQuery UI Sortable slow in FireFox
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Help save the Arctic with Greenpeace
It’s been a real pleasure to help Greenpeace out in a small way for this important Arctic fundraising campaign that’s currently running on their homepage. I built the fundraising thermometer widget (marked with the red border in the screenshot above) by extending Dave Cranwell’s jQuery E-activist Social Proof Plugins (source code available on GitHub). Please make… Continue reading Help save the Arctic with Greenpeace
Loading a new version of jQuery without breaking an old version
Sometimes you’re working on a website that already uses an old version of jQuery and upgrading is not an option at that moment in time; if for example the jQuery library is bundled with a version of Drupal and works with a set of existing plugins. The following code will allow you to load in… Continue reading Loading a new version of jQuery without breaking an old version