PixelMEDIA Inc.

As new plugins become available to developers every day, jQuery is quickly becoming one of the most popular javascript libraries.  jQuery is an easy solution for interactive development and a remarkable alternative to traditional flash-based components.  In fact, the versatility of jQuery is truly astounding and in many ways, makes it a much better alternative to Flash. 

Although jQuery isn’t known to be the best solution for 3-D and vector-based graphics, there are several other areas in which jQuery out-performs Flash. Read More…

I was recently working on coding a design that included a simple type of faux select element. It was basically an unordered list that expanded and collapsed when you clicked a link. As it was styled similar to a select element, the JavaScript behaviors were similar as well. Clicking the link expanded the list underneath it, and you could then choose a link inside the list and navigate away from the page, or click the original link to close the list again.

The client, however, found this a bit confusing Read More…

Recently, we had a situation that required us to pull in some content from one server to another using an iframe. Generally, this is something we would try to avoid, but we needed to pull some data from a new .NET application into a legacy ColdFusion application.

Unfortunately, the height of the page being pulled in would vary wildly. This led to a fairly disappointing experience where the page was either far too long, or content in the iframe was cut off and the user had to scroll within the iframe to see everything.

We came up with what we thought might be an interesting solution. If the page loading inside of the iframe (the child page) could calculate its height, and somehow let the parent page know, the parent page should be able to reset the height of the iframe.

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