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Filed in Main Thursday May 11, 2006

I installed the code for my collapsible sidebar on here… perhaps a bit prematurely… I dunno…

I havent fully tested it yet, but the sidebar seems to work right… evrything with a handle can still be dragged to reorder the sidebar… but now you should be able to collapse each item as well… the contents should drop out and go away on the first click… then fade back in on the second click… blind up and down when you click the little toggle switch to the right of the handle.

the page should then remember both the position that item was in… and if the box was collapsed or not.

 test it out and let me know if it works please.


Filed in Main Tuesday May 9, 2006

Ok.

Lots of people are aware of… and annoyed by the ActiveX issues surrounding embedded flash (and other things) in IE. I personally have only been effected by the flash issues though so for now Im ignoring the rest.

My friend Dan pointed me towards SWFObject… a javascript by Geoff Stearns (visit him at blog.deconcept.com) which can be used to embed flash without any issues.

The invocation code is a little much for sites that are flash heavy… or people who just like to write as little code as possible. Dan had written a nifty little php script to insert all the javascript more easily… even his simplified code was too much for me though so I made my own.

Read on for examples, explanations and all kinds of stuff that will make your life easier if you care about this whole ActiveX problem…

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