Here’s another jQuery plugin to add to my “pretty” scripts library.

This is customize you checkboxes/radio buttons. Why use this one instead of another? Because this one keep the default browser behaviors. IE: You press spacebar while the label is highlighted, the checkbox gets checked. It’s something that was missing in the other jQuery plugin I found.

Head over here to the script page

In a recent blog post I talked about pixel perfect template and how to achieve them. The purpose of this post is to give you my tricks I developed over the years on how to be more productive and how to keep the motivation level high enough to deliver on time and with satisfying results.

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Not every web developer wants to have pixel perfect designs. But for some, it’s very important to respect the designs they got from the designer. Personally, I find it very important to render the designs properly, it’s a matter of doing your job well or not.

I’ll give you my hints on how to achieve pixel perfect templates and tools to get there.

A small technique I developed, is that I simply put a div with a jpeg of the design I got from the designer over my template, fading it a bit so I can see my template underneath. This way I’m sure that everything will be where it should be. I also add a bit of javascript so when I click on it, it closes so I can still access GUI things such as links or inputs. I really love this technique because this way I can be sure the designs will be perfect on every browsers since it’s CSS/JavaScript based.

Last week I also came accros a Firefox plugin named Pixel Perfect. It basically does the same thing as I described above, only in a pretty Firefox plugin. Main drawback? Not cross browser, but it’s still worth it as it is so easy to setup.

I plan on releasing a JavaScript alternative to this plugin to make it cross browser, stay tuned !

Have your own tips? Share them!

I’ve just updated my prettyComments plugin and made a project page for it (the old post was too dirty for me )

You can view/test the updated version on this page. Feel free to leave any comment in this post as this will become the main post for the plugin.

Thanks!

As most of you must know by now, yesterday was the much anticipated release of the iphone 3g. The inner geek in has rarely been excited that much for a new device. I was ready to give allllll my money to Rogers to get one on the release date, but they said no…NO!

I have been a client for more than 4 years, but last year I upgraded to a new contract. When yesterday night I finally had the iPhone in my hand, ready to sign the contract, the clerk told me “Sorry sir, you need to wait until october 11th before you can upgrade your plan”. WHY!, the guy told me it was some policy where you have to wait 1 year since your last upgrade or plan activation to be able to upgrade again.

This simply don’t make any sense for me, the only reason why I think it’s good for them (because they don’t care about the customers) is that their 6 gig data plan for 30$/month won’t be effective then, therefore forcing bunch of people who wants their iPhone but can’t get them to get the crazy plans.

The past two week has been nothing but bullshit from Rogers, every time they make a somewhat good move, there’s something somewhere that reminds me how bad they are.

What pisses me the most is that Rogers is the only DSM carrier in Canada, so if I want to have a somehwat good phone, I’m forced to go with them.

So what will I do? I just don’t know, I don’t want to go with Rogers, but I want the iPhone so bad.

I have just put online a new version of prettyPhoto, this version now supports titles.

As usual, if you have any comments/bugs feel free to leave a comment in the main prettyPhoto post.

Head to the project page to view the latests changes.

Google and Adobe has been working together in order to improve Flash indexation. While this seem like a really good news, there are some important points to consider.

Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.

Does this mean we’ll have to go back to the old way of embedding flash in webpages and drop SWFobject ?

We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.

That’s a big stopper. Most rich flash websites load either external SWF or XML files, the website should be considered as a whole and not as separate entities. I guess it’s a technical challenge for Google/Adobe to work this out.

I’m also wondering how Google will rank the content in the web pages. We know that in HTML the title tag is the most important after that comes the headings, etc, etc. As far as I know that content in flash is most of the time not formatted this way, even if it’s possible.

So overall this is very good news, but there’s still some work to do.