I am handy with HTML, CSS and a little Javascript. I also have a lot of experience with Wordpress theme development. What is the best path for me to become an ace data visualizer on the web?
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posted by Rodrigo Lamaitre
on Feb 16, 2013 -
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Javascript question: I have a rectangular div. Imagine that div is divided from one corner to the other to make two right triangles. I would like to, on hover, have Javascript tell me which triangle my mouse is over. But my trigonometry powers are failing me, and Google is coming up short. Hope me, admin!
posted by eustacescrubb
on Jan 8, 2013 -
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JavaScript question: Here in the U.S. myDate.toLocaleDateString () returns Thursday, Oct. 04, 2012. Can anyone give me an example of the date formatted for another locale?
posted by markcmyers
on Oct 4, 2012 -
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JavaScript question: What is the lowest number and what is the highest number generated by Math.random()?— 0.0000000000000000 or 0.0000000000000001, 1.0000000000000000 or 0.9999999999999999
posted by markcmyers
on Sep 25, 2012 -
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In JavaScript, I can't think of any situation in which nested if statements can't be replaced by more concise code that employs the logical operators &&, || and !. Can you think of any?
posted by markcmyers
on Aug 11, 2012 -
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In JavaScript, if I define a variable within in a conditional block, is the variable defined through a type of hoisting even if the condition isn't met?
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posted by markcmyers
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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What kind of magic does QString().setNum() do to convert -1413011644 to 2881955652?
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posted by crawl
on Feb 16, 2012 -
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Can anyone help me make sense of the javascript/jQuery (and black magic?) behind the category list in the portfolio of this Wordpress theme?
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posted by This_Will_Be_Good
on Jan 10, 2012 -
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Can you use the CSS property
"clip"
as in
clip:rect(0px, 150px, 145px,145px) in a CSS3 transition?
That is... Can I transition on a clipped region in a div? It just has to work in webkit browser. Trying to create an animated crop from 2 sides on an image.
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posted by jpburns
on Oct 10, 2011 -
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Is there some way (maybe with javascript?) to track how much of an embedded YouTube video someone has watched on my website?
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posted by 256
on Sep 20, 2011 -
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Let's assume that I am the stupidest person that ever lived. Explain to me what JavaScript is, what it does, and how a moron would go about learning it...
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posted by Senor Cardgage
on Sep 7, 2011 -
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I've built two HTML validated pages with the same content, but they're hosted in different places and are displaying differently in different browsers. Help?
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posted by andihazelwood
on Aug 3, 2011 -
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Via Javascript or PHP, I want to fetch the page source of an external URL. The catch: the URL is another php file.
file_get_contents and
curl don't work, and neither, seemingly, does anything else I try. Help?
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posted by hiteleven
on May 27, 2011 -
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Mac OSX 10.5.8 form PDF printing: Can anyone tell me why it might be that sites which generate a unique PDF for download will malfunction with Firefox but not with Safari or Chrome? A typical example is
Purolator.ca: clicking on the javascript link to print a waybill returns a cgi file but no pdf.
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posted by HLD
on Apr 7, 2011 -
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Using jQuery, how can I make an element move up or down the page as the user scrolls, until it reaches a certain distance from its parent's border or the viewport border?
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posted by Fred Mars
on Jan 14, 2011 -
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Is their a service that would allow me to upload my images and embed them into my website in a particular style (see
this link for a crude mock-up). I also want the ability for the user to click on an image and for a bigger version to appear (using jQuery or some other javacript library).
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posted by nam3d
on Oct 12, 2010 -
5 answers
How do I create forms such as those on Facebook which expand/show extra options when you click the mouse into the text box.
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posted by Biru
on Oct 9, 2010 -
8 answers
window.showModalDialog opens a new window, but the page doesn't load. It's only a problem for one user - all others have been fine. What gives?
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posted by lash
on Jun 29, 2010 -
6 answers
Any resources for quickly developing data-entry heavy applications in JQuery/Javascript? Alternatively, how much quicker is it to get applications running in Flash/Silverlight than Javascript?
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posted by geoff.
on Jun 17, 2010 -
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Firefox+Facebook has broken for me -- it greys out when I do stuff. Anyone else experiencing this?
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posted by katrielalex
on Feb 23, 2010 -
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What software development technologies (languages and plugins) exist for writing real-time games that can run inside web browsers? Bonus points for 1) playing well with source control, 2) being amenable to unit tests, and 3) having dev tools that run on both Windows and OS X.
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posted by Jpfed
on Feb 21, 2010 -
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How would I go about recreating the document display functionality of Google Books / Safari Books online? I was expecting to be able to take a PDF source and serve each page as a PNG to the browser. This appears not easy to do? It seems like a simple thing to do, but I'm running into a bunch of brick walls.
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posted by geoff.
on Feb 16, 2010 -
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Using J-query for tabbed navigation, can you create a hyperlink to a bookmark (named anchor) somewhere in one tab from another tab on the same page?
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posted by xetere
on Feb 1, 2010 -
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Google Wave question: does anyone know the technical details of how blip editing works?
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posted by ook
on Oct 29, 2009 -
4 answers
I noticed today that text copied from articles on The Huffington Post appends the article URL when pasted and I'm wondering how it's done.
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posted by eyeballkid
on Sep 25, 2009 -
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PHP / Javascript question - Lightbox (and Greybox, for that matter) doesn't seem to want to play nicely with my "include" function.
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posted by Phire
on Jul 13, 2009 -
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I have been accessing twitter on my mobile (Palm Centro) for months and today, I accidentally hit a button that said "View in Standard". I can no longer access twitter.
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posted by Sophie1
on Jun 1, 2009 -
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Is there a way to disable the right-click menu on a particular web page I visit that isn't managed by me?
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posted by maxwelton
on May 30, 2009 -
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Is it possible to make NoScript disable certain site's scripts only on certain sites?
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posted by Solomon
on May 16, 2009 -
2 answers
In light of the increasing number of PDF security exploits, what is the most secure PDF viewer for Windows?
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posted by benzenedream
on Apr 1, 2009 -
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[Website development filter] I have developed a site for a client. He wanted something that shows a picture with text that changes every few seconds so I created a GIF that does this. Now he says that he wants it to pause on mouseover or a click. How do I do this?
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posted by Drasher
on Mar 6, 2009 -
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I copied a short javascript to display the moonphase from a
webpage, and made a few minor tweaks, and it appears to have a few problems. For instance, the moon phase occasionally shows up as "undefined"; I don't know enough about javascript to fix it, please help.
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posted by timepiece
on Jan 28, 2009 -
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Javascript hair loss: I'm searching for a certain element by regular expression, assigning it an id via an innerHTML replacement, and then using a "getElementById" to find it and manipulate parentNodes. Firefox is fine with this, IE cannot find the newly ID'ed element.
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posted by maxwelton
on Jan 19, 2009 -
8 answers
