JQuery on David Hamp-Gonsalves

Updating Chrome Extension Manifest

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post should really just read: JQuery 1.4 breaks(Refused to execute inline script) when used in Chrome Extensions using the version 2 Manifest. Update to Jquery 1.7 and you’ll be happy.

Unfortunately it doesn’t, it reads more like:

Last night I decided to cross something off my to do list and updated Foxish(a chrome extension) to use the version 2 manifest that will become manditory in a short while.

For the most part it was pretty painless. Mostly it involves moving your javascript from the headers(or footers) of your html and placing it in seperate .js files to avoid some security risks outlined on the chrome site.

Slimming Down JQuery Easing

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

For simple javascript animations there is always a trade off between code size and visual effects. Recently I was trying to add some visual pizzazz to hour weather but didn’t want to incur the overhead of JQuery UI. What I was looking for was just a simple bounce effect on some moving objects. A lighter weight alternative that I considered was JQuery easing but even that seemed like overkill. My solution was to rip out the parts I needed and I wanted to share how easy that process is.

JQuery JFeed

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

While working on Foxish I needed to parse some RSS/Atom feeds in javascript. Thinking there would be nice a library for this I took a look around and found a couple old libraries and determined that the best of those was JFeed which is a JQuery plugin.

Issues

As I worked on the project I discovered issues with the library and since it was last updated in 2007 it didn’t support JQuery 1.4.*. In working on Foxish I ended up updating the plugin and fixing a few small bugs and today I remembered that I should share the updates.