Using Anchors in AJAX base web apps

Using Anchors in AJAX base web apps

In these years the use of AJAX calls and javascript in web pages is grown. Javascript could be really useful to create web based apps, reduce loading time of pages and create fancy web pages. Using javascript to change the contents in your pages could create big problems with the back button …I know,...

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Text highlighting filter with Django

Text highlighting filter with Django

Recently, working with Django, I needed a simple template filter with which highlight a string in a block of text. I found this snippet (thank you at the author to shared his work) but I modified it because I needed a case insensitive filter. I used it to highlight the filter string in the...

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Online vs Offline interactions

Online vs Offline interactions

Paul Adams, a researcher for ‘Social’ at Facebook (previously at Google), in “The Real Life Social Network” writes about differences between social interactions online, and offline. I found really interesting his work so I want reassume some useful Paul’s considerations that designers can follow (I suggest to read his work). There are some important...

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No sortable columns in Moodgets

No sortable columns in Moodgets

I use a request on the moodgets discussion group to create a new quick tutorial about how to create plugins for Moodgets. How can I avoid the sorting of a column (the request is not exactly this but it can solve the issue ) ? When you need to create or modify features for...

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About using css classes with javascript

About using css classes with javascript

Personally I try to avoid to manage directly the elements style when I develop with javascript. For example, if you need to hide a DOM element using javascript you can use the hard coded approach: or you can just use a css class: where hidden is a css class: NOTE: you can use also...

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