Another interesting discovery in the new prototype (1.6.1) & scriptaculous (1.8.3).
// Forces a textarea <div id="MakeThisAnInPlaceEditor"> Just a bit of text </div> // Makes a single line item <div id="MakeThisAnInPlaceEditor">Just a bit of text</div>More info here http://yazmedia.com/sandbox/inplaceeditor.php
Seems like IE doesn’t recognize the cursor on the textbox, so it doesn’t let you click if the textbox is empty.
Realized there was nothing wrong with tinymce or the javascript or the browser. Until I restarted the computer, started the browser without developer tools and realized: it worked all along.
3 wasted hours.
new Ajax.InPlaceEditor(node, 'items.aspx', {
cancelControl: 'button'
});
Doesn’t work. Has to be link. The issue: in prototype 1.5, there are some Ajax.Request calls that return onComplete, the response, and then a second variable passed through with json from php. Prototype 1.5 handled this perfectly fine.
But on the new prototype (1.6.1), Ajax.Request doesn’t handle that second variable. So the there are some chunks of code not executing because the variable is null.
This has taken me 2 days to figure out. Two whole days of researching, reading random people’s code, reading documentation, and when none of those panned out, reading the prototype file side by side to find what changed.
So, on to the practical example of what happened.
For prototype 1.5..
// In the php file that handles the ajax request
if( $_POST['ajax_request'] ) {
$arrSomeStuff['name'] = "John Smith";
$arrSomeStuff['city'] = "Toronto";
echo json_encode( $arrSomeStuff );
}
//and the javascript request:
new Ajax.Request('some_url.php', {
parameters : { 'ajax_request' = 1 },
onComplete: function(response, arrSomeStuff){
$('name_div').update(arrSomeStuff.name);
},
onFailure: function(response){
// handle errors
}
});
// assumes all the other defauls from Ajax.Options
// NEW: send the content type
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode( $arrSomeStuff );
// And the javascript request has to be modified like so:
onComplete: function(response){
var arrSiteVariable = response.responseJSON;
// do whatever
}
There is another method of course, you could just forget about sending the json header, and parse the response.responseText string, which contains everything sent back from the server. (This might be a good thing because responseJSON only works for “small ammounts of text”, the limit is not specified. So trial and error friends)
Its because I had a z-index:-1 on the div that the maps get loaded. Changed it to 1, 2, 3, anything positive, and it started working.
Random changes like that to the google maps api over the weekend, suck.
Its an interview with a Facebook employee. Could be a fake, but it sounds pretty real. Worth a quick read.
First photo: Rogers’ plans.
Second photo: Telus’ plans.
Rogers just lists all their plans on one page. But it doesn’t let you click through for more information! So I’m looking at the Data Browsing Plans, and I can’t figure out if they include voice or not. I looked at the MyFav5 options, and also it doesn’t tell me if I have to mix and match with something else. The page simply lists everything, doesn’t tell you what to do with it, except “compare plans” with each other.
The Telus’ list, I don’t even have to explain that one. It just works.
This is the 2nd redesign for Rogers this year. This one is a bit less cluttered than the last at least. But they fail at organizing important data, also when searching for phones you get this ‘refine results by’ column on the left that is incredibly useless; though it works a bit better on the programming channels option. Oh and I don’t even want to start on their “Page Not Found’ errors, they come up inadvertently every couple of minutes when browsing around… quite disruptive.
They’re one of THREE telcom companies here, must they fuck things up so badly?
