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jQuery Font Selector – version 2

A guy called Rob just commented on the jQuery Font picker I posted a while back – and asked whether I could provide an example. Looking at the code I thought it was in need of a refresh, so have just rewritten it. You can see the jQuery font selector demo here. The plugin hasn’t [...]

JQuery AJAX using XML in Internet Explorer

I spent a while this morning trying to figure out why an JQuery AJAX call wasn’t working in Internet Explorer 8. The call was being made to a PHP script which was outputting XML. I had checked the XML was valid and (no surprises) it was all working fine in Firefox. Eventually I found this [...]

Loading XML with JQuery – an XCAL feed

XCAL is an XML implementation of the iCal format, and as such it can be easily read with JQuery. So, if you’re implementing some kind of calendaring system online, one way to accomplish it could be to read the events from your database, output them in XCAL format, and display them online using our old [...]