Found an interesting POC of jQuery Desktop using HTML5, CSS and jQuery at SonSpring.com. Though the implementation is basic, its certainly going to trigger more ideas and could be a good way of designing management tools. jQuery is a great library for javascript and when mixed with HTML 5 and CSS can create magic.
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I was trying my hands on the new NativeProcess API in Adobe Air 2 SDK. This API allows communication with system processes using the standard IO. I tried an example with a small java application that reads and write data to the console and it looked pretty promising. I realized, the best application that’s readily available in Windows for testing the STDIN and STDOUT is the good old DOS and this is how I started putting together this prototype in place that allows you to use all the dos commands like you would in a DOS Console and also have the features to format it, color/highlight it, save the console contents as a text file and add shortcuts other command/batch files.
This certainly is a quick prototype of the NativeProcess API but looks like has got scope for improvement and real use. Download SmartDos
There are number of articles on internet that talk about the fix for the innerHTML issues in IE. some are http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276228 http://domscripting.com/blog/display/99 None of these work when you try to insert javascript into the <script> tags. Thats because all these solutions talk about using a wrapper <div> for the content and it won’t work if you are trying to insert or modifiy the javascript inside the <script> tags. The solution is instead of using ‘innerHTML’, use ‘text’ property.
jQuery.append() behaves a differently in different situations. It sometimes moves the contents from the DOM to the new location where it is appended and sometimes it clones it (keeping a copy of the dom element in its original location). I stumbled upon this when trying to fix an issue with <form> submit. The content I was appending had a form embedded and the append() method in this case was creating two copies of the <form> node (since, it decided to go with cloning and not moving). So, how does the append() method decide what to use. I found an interesting article here: http://welcome.totheinter.net/2009/03/19/the-undocumented-life-of-jquerys-append/ However in my case, It was a bit different. Although, I was using a single node to append to, the append() method wasn’t moving the elements. I figured out that its not only depends on whether you are appending the elements to single node or multiple nodes, but also on how you are fetching the contents to be appended. I was using .html() to fetch all the content from the DOM and then using append to insert it elsewhere. This in all cases would create a clone and not move the content. Instead, use children() to fetch all contents and bingo!!! jQuery.append() moves all content from the source to the destination. |
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