In the pursuit of an idea I had recently, one tiny feature of the web site would be to detect whether the user had X font installed. I've looked at flash solutions, since a SWF had access to enumerate the fonts, but ultimately if it could be done without flash, it would/should be faster and smarter. So [...]

Code Dumper is a personal project of mine that I've used to practise some new skills on. It's a code dumping repository with a couple of features that I think makes it unique from the other code bins. Where possible, I'll blog about how particular aspects of the project so that they can be re-used [...]

In building the jQuery API browser, since the source of the API comes from the wiki pages over at docs.jquery.com, I had to handle some wiki parsing and convert it to HTML. However, the more I browsed the API, the more I realised there were aspects of wiki parsing I had missed. So I built a (fairly) [...]

Ever since jQuery 1.1.3 the old API browser hasn't been updated due to incompatibilities in the documentation (though that's mostly assumptions). Although the new docs is comprehensive, I've always liked the quick access the old API browser gave. As such, I've got about my own way re-building an API browser based on the new documentation. Check [...]

If you're familiar with del.icio.us you will be familiar with the tag suggesting as-you-type support. The reason why, I believe, the tagging works so well within del.icio.us is that it helps you create a subset of tags that you commonly use for different types of links. This way, it makes it easier to find tagged [...]

To follow on from Auto-populating Select Boxes using jQuery & AJAX, I've had more than a few requests for how to do this for multiple select boxes. In response, I've written a jQuery plugin and have included a simple example of three select boxes populating each other driven by a MySQL database.

Update - updated 31-May 2008 Updated to specify timeouts, and timeout functions - see options below. Also Twitter have changed their API so 'withFriends' now requires authentication. With friends will be disabled regardless until I find out what the new plan is. Download latest Twitter.js Following on from how [...]