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I am very pleased to have launched the Beta version of Informr Domain Stakeout Mobile Edition. It's my first JQuery Mobile App and features keyword searches of over 500,000 expiring domain names and a dictionary lookup tool that searches for expring domains within an English language database of over 100,000 words. All this is being fed via JSON to dynamically generated pages within the App.

Next stop: PhoneGap with the hopeful launch of Informr Domain Stakeout on the Appstore in the coming months.

Sometimes you will want to use a popup window for an antiquated system and need to maintain a reference to the popup window so that when the popup loses focus you can bring it back in focus with a click of a button. The following script will allow you to do that.

In brief, the script opens a window when a button is clicked, if it loses focus you just need to click the button again to get it back. The script also deals with the fact that the user may close their browser window, navigate away from the main page or refresh the current browser window.

Enjoy!

There a many situations where you need to check if a page and its elements are available to update or alter via JQuery. Example include activating JQuery animations, reading the contents of an iframe or interacting with Flash.

There are two JQuery commands that should be part of every web developers tool kit when dealing with dynamic JQuery content.

The first is JQuery $(document).ready() handler.

E.g.
$(document).ready(function(){ //do stuff });

After a couple of hours of struggling to find out why I was getting an intermittent javascript error that Firebug reported as 'FB.provide is not a function' that resulted in my Facebook Like button not appearing I found the root of the problem.

For some reason Facebook conversion tracking was causing a conflict. I don't use Facebook conversion tracking at the moment so deleted the offending script and my Facebook Like button now works fine - no errors and it is displayed on every page as expected.

It's late but I have just finished uploading the first release version of JSlideshow. Check it out, it's a very simple JQuery plugin for creating slideshows and carousels.

You can download the plugin from the digital products section of my portfolio or from Github at: https://github.com/jnorton/jslideshow.