Javascript Abuse #2,463,981: Centering Content

Another quick rant/post about the wonderful world of abusing javascript. Consider the following code: function moveScreen() { var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0; if (typeof(window.innerWidth) == ‘number’) { //Non-IE myWidth = window.innerWidth; myHeight = window.innerHeight; } else if (document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight)) { //IE 6+ in ‘standards compliant mode’ myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth; myHeight […]

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Programming Nuances, PHP and JavaScript

Two little snippets, some simple things that seem to be forgotten when writing code.  First, a general example using PHP; have you ever found yourself writing a loop that looks something like this? $i = 0; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) { // … // maybe something about $i % 2 to determine even-from-odd rows ++$i; […]

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009