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We published a while ago a small WordPress plugin which enables the users to look up words in a specific database, by highlighting with the mouse the word they want to look up then following a link to an administrator set online database (like Google Definition service or Dictionary.com) which will do the rest of [...]

If you will code in Javascript, or if you already familiarized yourself with it, you encounter many times problems related to the fact that Internet Explorer doesn’t understand a lot of functions which the other browsers can. But the browser market-share dictates that we still have to code in the way to make the script [...]

This error message appears only if another framework is in conflict with the almighty jQuery. For example You try to use Prototype/Scriptaculous for Lightbox but you also need Thickbox for something else, which requires jQuery.
Since no framework is compatible with another framework, you have to find a workaround to get things working.
And here comes jQuery [...]

Clients… I had to create a website… XHTML Strict… AND opening all links in a new tab/window.
No probs, there’s the target attribute of the anchor elements! But not in XHTML Strict!
W3 states clearly that target attributes should be forgotten and avoided. Why, I have no idea, but if you want to create XHTML Strict pages, [...]

This subject is quite interesting and i was searching for examples for long. Then I managed to do something, true that only by combining many examples i’ve found.
Let’s see the code then I’ll try to explain everything.

function popUp(URL) {
window.open(URL, ‘WindowName’, ‘toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=300,height=400′);
}
window.onload = popUp(“http://example.com”);

The above function will pop-up window which will contain the page you put [...]

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