Answering Google- Passing a Random Number to a Div id in Javascript

Occasionally I see specific searches that bring people to my site and I wonder if people actually found the answers they were looking for in my code articles. Sometimes I think they probably did, but sometimes I’m not so sure. So… I figured why not answer some of the more interesting pleas directly? Lord knows […]

Mad Science… Flash for a page background using JavaScript and CSS

For the current EforAll Expo*1 web site, the designer suggested that we use a flash piece for the background. It’s a kind of hip event, for gamers and other technophiles so we made some assumptions about our user base and decided it was worth a go. The onus fell on me, as these things do, […]

Javascript: getElementById() for XML fragments and arbitrary XML documents + getElementsByAttribute()

Why I never wrote this function before is a mystery.

The joy of… JavaScript’s getElementsByTagName()

For what it’s worth the kernel of this article was dictated into my phone on my drive into work this morning. I got the idea, had the framework and figured- why the hell not just talk to myself for a while. It was actually pretty efficient, so I might do more of it and if […]

Cross Browser PNG Transparency: Part 2

This is Part 2. See Part 1. In October, I posted about cross browser PNGs. Since IE7’s adoption rate is glacially slow, the topic is still relevant. That it’s still relevant is also evidenced by the number of referrals I get on this topic- People are interested in doing this stuff.