Helvensteijn.com » JavaScript http://helvensteijn.com The glass is neither half full nor half empty; It is simply oversized Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:38:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 JavaScript Documentation http://helvensteijn.com/2010/09/28/javascript-documentation/ http://helvensteijn.com/2010/09/28/javascript-documentation/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:05:58 +0000 Colin Helvensteijn http://helvensteijn.com/?p=1464 Read more]]> Have you ever been looking for some JavaScript documentation, but the top ten search results you got from Google were actually of mediocre quality at best? Well, apparently, that’s a fairly common problem. Some folks have picked up the idea to get Mozilla’s JavaScript documentation to be the first result for JavaScript related searches. The Mozilla Foundation is, after all, responsible for JavaScript, so they ought to know something about it.

I routinely use the Mozilla Developer Center to look up information on the topic, and I hardly, if ever, need to look elsewhere. Their DOM section is also quite extensive.

Considering the shady quality of some documentation (especially tutorials) out there, this is not a bad idea. Therefore, I’ll put the badge up here, too. Not that the traffic this site generates is going to be of much help to the cause, but every little bit helps, right? ;)

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]]> http://helvensteijn.com/2010/09/28/javascript-documentation/feed/ 0 Click & Hold http://helvensteijn.com/2010/03/23/click-and-hold/ http://helvensteijn.com/2010/03/23/click-and-hold/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:55:17 +0000 Colin Helvensteijn http://helvensteijn.com/?p=1258 Read more]]> It’s actually kind of weird. Mac OS X has a click & hold gesture in its Dock, as an alternative for right clicking or — since Snow Leopard — for Exposé. iPhone OS has a tap & hold gesture to select text or to bring up some options for links in Safari. On the other hand, I have also seen web applications replacing the browser’s context menu with their own, which, in my opinion, is downright annoying.

But for some reason, I’ve never seen a web application use a click & hold gesture, certainly not for a context menu. A quick search on Google didn’t really bring up anything either. Despite the fact that it could be so useful, if only to not hijack the right mouse button. Am I really the first one to think of this? Hard to imagine for something so trivial.

Anyway, since I couldn’t really find anything that does this, I just conjured up a proof of concept myself. It could probably use some improvement, but it conveys the general idea pretty well, as long as you’re not using Internet Explorer even in Internet Explorer.

Proof of concept

Update (March 26th, 2010)

I created a jQuery plugin that adds the click & hold gesture as a custom event, which makes it ridiculously easy to bind your own code to it. You can read more about it and of course download it on the special demo page I created.

More info / Demo / Download

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