http://techtrouts.com Doin' the dev dance o/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:27:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very common XHTML mistake, now growing in visibility much due to the Google Chrome boom. Google Chrome is based on Webkit, an open source browser engine also used in Apple's Safari; Webkit is very restrict on XHTML rules;This particular error is caused due to common HTML entities usage ... http://techtrouts.com/webkit-entity-nbsp-not-defined-convert-html-entities-to-xml/ This errors reports to the incorrect setting of Unreal Tournament's default resolution for your mac (it will probably happen when you copy the game from one machine to another with different resolution). The resolution setted up at at your UnrealTournament.ini is higher then the current machine resolution... There are two ways ... http://techtrouts.com/ut99-mac-unable-to-find-drawsprocket-context-error/ Hi again, don't your clients always ask for some specific details on their Location markers on google maps? Ours do. So, in order to shorten our workload, we've developed a small handy tool to create a quick customized map using some of the upcoming FallForward game tech. This small tool is posted at ... http://techtrouts.com/personalized-google-maps-location-for-your-website/ Hello, For our current project we required some neat instant user notifications, therefore we created a simple Growl-inspired notification system using Mootools. Now updated for IE6 compatibility! Download it here! The package contains a sample.html very self-explanatory for most users; Just include the js_growl.js and the js_growl.css files in your page's header and send a ... http://techtrouts.com/js_growl-mootools-based-javascript-growl-like-notifications/ Ahhh, i tryed using some Adium away applescripts for QuickSilver posted at  blacktree but couldn't get them to work, either no one ever tested it or they were designed for a really old Adium version. So i wrote a couple of simple QuickSilver plugins to support setting away and back on all ... http://techtrouts.com/adium-set-away-plugin-for-quicksilver/ If you have a box (div) and a dragging icon (a anchor) on it, and you want to drag the box by clicking on the icon you just have to make the box draggable and set the handle of the drag to the icon. Here it is, for: Drag Just use: $('example').makeDraggable({handle:$('drag_button')}); Notes on IE: The ... http://techtrouts.com/mootools-how-to-drag-through-icon-two-items-simultaneously/ Rot13 Email Protection for Wordpress, protects all email addresses and mailto: links on your blog from email harvesters using rot13 encryption and/or text mode. Inspired by ROT13 encryption on Textmate; I've developed this plugin a while ago, i've now updated it to a releasable version, already working up to wordpress 2.5.1 ROT13 Email ... http://techtrouts.com/rot13-email-protection-for-wordpress/ Hello, I'm just finishing our new website and i've been posting here the effects i've created for it. This one is a little more "show off"; It's the way we've set up our portfolio using Fx.Elements for the togglers and Slides for the presentation images. You can check how it works here. Using this html: ... http://techtrouts.com/mootools-nice-portfolio-by-9tree-using-kwicks-fxelements-and-slides/ Hello, this is the smooth font resize for css class ".bump" effect. Just put class="bump" on the items you want and use the following javascript somewhere on your page. window.addEvent('domready',function() { //scaling values var scale_px=6; var scale_em=0.3; var bumps=$$('.bump'); bumps.each(function(bump, i){ var init_size=bump.getStyle('font-size'); var units=init_size.match(/em/)!=null ? 'em' : init_size.match(/px/)!=null ? 'px' : false; if(units===false) return false; var size_up=(init_size.toFloat()+(units=='em' ? scale_em : ... http://techtrouts.com/mootools-smooth-font-resize-onmouseover-mouseenter-bump/ Hi, i've created a little script for highlighting an element onComplete of the Mootools' SmoothScroll. I've also added a line to highlight the selected anchor onload, in case the url already contains the anchor hash on page load. Here it is: Mootools 1.1 Version: window.addEvent('domready',function() { //default colors - if 'background-color' or 'color' aren't defined ... http://techtrouts.com/mootools-on-complete-smoothscroll-highlight-element-id/