Need/Want to Hide Internet Explorer 6 Specific JavaScript from IE7?

I use conditional comments to hide IE6 specific styles and scripts from IE7 (and IE7 specific styles and scripts from other browsers), but sometimes you need a bit of logic or something to only run on IE6 and earlier. Conditional compilation is a pretty foolproof way to handle that. function ie_function() { /*@cc_on @*/ /*@if […]

Code : Javascript : Turn a block into a clickable link area.

Here’s a little script (and some CSS) that turns an entire block (in this case a TR) into a click-able item:

Cross Browser PNG Transparency

(I wrote this post at my old job. Since IE6 will be around for some time to come, the techniques in use here are still useful going forward as more and more designers are going to want to use Transparent PNGs in their designs. I’m going to add onto this article at some point in […]

Javascript: Parse Domain Name out of a String

Did I mention that the “Web” category might contain code? It might. In fact, it will. Here’s a random function I wrote last night that might be useful function getDomain (thestring) { //simple function that matches the beginning of a URL //in a string and then returns the domain. var urlpattern = new RegExp(“(http|ftp|https)://(.*?)/.*$”); var […]