iFrames and HTML5 templates have significant hurdles with older Internet Explorer versions. For Internet Explorer 8 and older, the frameBorder and scrolling attributes must be set on the iFrame as the equivalent CSS properties cannot accomplish the same thing. Unfortunately, these properties are not valid in an HTML5 template. Here’s a solution to have a standards compliant iframe work in IE.
One frustrating part of the WCMS templating system is that while an anchor can output two (or more) pieces of information (title and url), you must choose either to use the basic tag markup (standard <a> tag) or use the path and file name only option of the anchor. This presents challenges when you want […]
Google recently posted a presentation I gave on using Closure Compiler to optimize your maps.
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Closure-Compiler provides impressive minification and optimization on your JavaScript. However, not all code compiles equally. I recently worked on converting the jQuery Tooltip Plugin to be compatible with the ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS mode of the compiler. This process went smoothly for the most part, but there were a couple of tricky points along the way.