Another site launches

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

We were very excited to see that our friends (and clients) at Wildeboer Dellelce LLP launched their new site this week. It's a very different looking site for a very different law firm, and has features such as live-filtering lawyer and transaction listings (with obligatory vcard downloads), customised JavaScript market update on the homepage, and plenty of RSS feeds.

I'm especially pleased because I headed up the design and build - call it a little parental pride!

The project includes some interesting technical elements - all AJAX is built using the YUI toolkit; we've added some handlers in place to combat Internet Explorer's difficulties with displaying layers over HTML elements such as drop-downs; and there are a number of interesting cross-links between content areas that combine for great exploration.

Fixing an IE 7 bug in mm_menu.js navigation

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:15:00 GMT

We're proud (even stubborn) hand-coders, so we don't often get the opportunity to delve into the JavaScript libraries deployed by using applications such as Dreamweaver.

Recently, however, we were contacted with an IE7 bug: a navigation system that was using the mm_menu.js library appeared to be only showing the first word of each option.

At 800 lines of dense JavaScript, this was not going to be fun to debug. Fortune, however, smiled upon us in the form of an invidual named Hiroto, who posted the following on the Cre8asite Forums:

function writeMenus(container) {
    .... some code here ....
    menu.menuItemHeight = menu.menuItemHeight || defaultHeight;
    var itemProps = ''; <= CHANGE THIS LINE TO => var itemProps = 'white-space:nowrap;';
    if( menu.fontFamily != '' ) itemProps += 'font-family:' + menu.fontFmaily+';';
     .... some code here ....
}

You should find this spot around line 163 of mm_menu.js. The change worked a charm. Thanks Hiroto!

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Another site launches

Fixing an IE 7 bug in mm_menu.js navigation