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Re: 12 Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer

mobile DVR — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:37:12 -0000

Very inspirational writing and Jason Fried instructive lecture is really motivating!! I think I'll take web development as a profession of mine. Thanks a lot mate for encouragement.

Re: Contact

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Re: Inline Code Assistance for Form Fields with jquery.codeassist

antic — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:31:48 -0000

see the latest now on github for this addition: https://github.com/atomantic/jquery.codeassist

demo: http://atomantic.github.com/jquery.codeassist/

Keep in mind that this is not intended to be an HTML creation helper (there are lots of more advanced libraries for that)--however, if you wanted to support <h1> and </h1> as helpers you could create a set like:

$('textarea').codeassist({
  key:'<',
  closeKey:'>',
   list:[
     'h1',
     'p',
     '/h1',
     '/p'
   ]
});

But keep in mind that this isn't smart about it--there's no detection built in to autoclose or detect which html element you intend to close, etc--like I said, there are other libraries for that :)

Re: Inline Code Assistance for Form Fields with jquery.codeassist

antic — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:07:21 -0000

There are a couple of issues with the current implementation. The keyCode for '<' (at least in FireFox) is showing up as 0, which won't work with the current way of detecting the key that was pressed. The way it's built out now was intended to support a particular simple set--but this could be expanded with a little modification, which I might do today :)

Essentially, rather than detecting the keydown/keypress keyCode, you could find the cursor position within the field, examine the last character that was typed explicitly (in combination with e.shiftKey, e.ctrlKey, etc--to support non-visual typed key triggers) and use that instead. That way, it would be much easier to support any key press combination without worrying about keyCode values at all.

Additionally, while we are on the topic of cursor position. For the original implementation, it was useful to pop the hint at the cursor position (partially because the click to add is an optional trigger and partially because it just worked for the situation)--but it isn't ideal since the cursor might be totally off-screen if the user is a keyboard jockey. However, grabbing the pixel position of the cursor within a textfield is a pain the royal when you have to consider browser and text-size variation. I explicitly didn't want to pop the helper as a side or bottom attachment to the textarea or input--but I might make that a config option.

Re: Inline Code Assistance for Form Fields with jquery.codeassist

Bryanlynn — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:09:21 -0000

Is it possible to use the key "<" as a bracket?