October 30, 2008 • 1:42 pm
Well done Maxime Haineault. Maxime has just released a new JQuery plug-in that I think will become the accepted way of entering dates into form fields.
It’s fast, easy to use and intuitive (localisation aside). Combined that with Maxime’s excellent design skills and it’s something attractive as well that I think you’ll start to see being used very widely on sites very soon.
It’s called the jquery.timepickr and you can check out the examples and code over at his site. http://haineault.com/media/examples/jquery-utils/demo/ui-timepickr.html [UPDATE: 11 Nov 08] It now has its on project page at http://haineault.com/media/jquery/ui-timepickr/page/
But before you dash over there, bear in mind that this is a very early release of code and or those of you watching in Black and White or Internet Explorer as it’s better known, don’t bother yet. This is experimental code and it’ll a) look bad and b) probably hang your browser.
But if you’re using Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera etc then you should see it just as intended.
I’ve included a screenshot below of the activated time picker in action.
Time Picker activated showing housr, minutes and am or pm choices
What’s nice about the time picker is that you just click once to activate it and then run your mouse to the time you require and the content of the input field continually changes showing you exactly what you’ve selected. Two clicks and you’re done.
There’s still work to be done on browser compatibility and better localisation to use the 24 hour clock etc. but this is an excellent start and I’m sure it’ll make its way into JQuery UI.
Filed under: Free Software , jquery, jquery UI, plug-ins, time picker
October 29, 2008 • 6:13 pm
Quicky
If you’re an Apatana Studio user, and you have the community version installed, update your intallation and you’ll automatically receive a free 30 day trial for the Professional version.
Some of the main advantages of the Professional version over the free version are IE Javascript debugging and a JSON Editor.
Filed under: Free Software , aptana, javascript
October 23, 2008 • 6:00 am
The WidgetBucks offer of a $25 sign-up bonus closes in a week so sign up now and have $25 added to your account immediately.
You can get more details at their site or in my previous post.
Filed under: Online Advertising , WidgetBucks
October 15, 2008 • 1:22 pm
Adobe have just released version 10 of their flash player. Beyond the fact that it’s faster, has better support on Ubuntu and has 3D effects, this release is significant in that it is the first release of the flash player that falls under the openly published SWF format.
It’s also a sign that we’ll soon get a new version of AIR (1.5) when AIR comes out of Beta for Linux and AIR on the mobile. Watch this space.
Filed under: Adobe Air, Web Standards, Accessibility and Best Practice , 3d, adobe, air, flash
October 9, 2008 • 1:05 pm
The WidgetBucks advertising network are celebrating their first year in business by offering $25 to people that sign up to publish ads on their site or blog. The offer applies to any sign ups in October done via their anniversary page.
This is a really smart move on their part as new sign ups are bound to have positive results over the next 3 months as we approach, Thanks Giving, Christmas and the January Sales. This is traditionally the busiest and highest paying time for most advertising sectors.
Their product based ads for items such as consumer electronics should be your best option at the moment and last month WidgetBucks introduced new categories of ads that cover travel offers as well. So WidgetBucks are an excellent choice at the moment.
Whichever advertising networks your using you should start to see your income go up as competition hots up for those top spots. And remember to have a good mix of ads on your site and change your placements depending on the season and to keep your regular readers interested.
WidgetBucks payout after you have accrued $50 so you’re already half way there. Sign up via their anniversary page now and good luck.
Filed under: Online Advertising , advertising networks, christmas, sales, thanks giving, WidgetBucks
So it’s the end of the month and true to their word, WidgetBucks have extended their pay per click network to most of Western Europe. Before the extension of the scheme, if you were placing their advertising widgets on your website and you were outside North America, then you would see a replacement banner ad rather than their more lucrative animated product adverts.
While it was always possible to preview the ad widgets in your WidgetBucks account, it didn’t really help with actual placement on your sites. So now us folks over here in Europe can see our ads as well, as WidgetBucks intended them to look.
But what about those people still outside the list of approved pay per click countries?
Advertisers like WidgetBucks surely gain a lot of business from web designers and developers living outside of Europe? And of course they are usually responsible for creating more than one site so if they find WidgetBucks a good source of income, they’ll place them on many sites.
So Dear WidgetBucks , how about the option to put the Javascript that we drop in to our web sites into debug mode so that we can see the ad as it is meant to be. Of course any views and click when in debug mode would have to be disregarded, but I’m sure it would increase take up of this scheme.
Another alternative would be to allow the widget to be displayed if the request came from localhost.
Any one else have any ideas about how this could work?
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