Including Google Map into jQuery Mobile websites

As I explained already in this blog entry, we came across a problem as we wanted to use a Google Map on our mobile website.

jQuery Mobile – Execute javascript after loading a page with AJAX

As we developed our mobile WebApp we came across some minor problems. One of them was that we need a Google Map in one of our pages. But all pages are loaded via AJAX. So the Google Map did not load, we had to refresh it, with custom data which was provided via PHP.

Creating plugins for TinyMCE

The official TinyMCE website offers a documentation/tutorial to develop a plugin for the popular WYSIWYG Editor. Unfortunately the tutorial is quite poor and we’d love to have a template instead of a step-by-step tutorial.

jQuery Mobile – Scrolling with a swipe

In our new mobile WebApp for our website www.powerhour.at which we realized with the popular jQuery Mobile Framework, we included some cool stuff. One of them is the possibility to scroll through the result entries with an easy swipe to left on the mobile phone.

jqrotate – Rotate DOM elements

We love CSS3 and all the new opportunities it offers. But as CSS3 always comes with the question for cross browser compatibility we are constantly looking for solutions.

jQuery textbox default value

As we need the functionality for textboxes to contain default values which disappear on focus we developed a jQuery plugin for this functionality.

Print route from Google Maps API

According to the fact that the official Google Maps API does not provide any functionality for printing, we probably found a solution: The Idea At first I’d like to give you an introduction how we came to our solution, those of you who are looking for a quick solution can skip this paragraph. I guess [...]

Minify Javascript and CSS

Due to the effect that we need an enormous amount of javascript and css (files) for our project, we looked for a solution to minify the size of both and further more how to reduce the http requests. (Because every file you include causes a http request to the server, which is really bad because [...]

Styling Alert, Confirm and Prompt via jQuery UI

Since there has been no possibility yet to customize the style of the Javascript message boxes alert, confrm and prompt we decided to develop JS functions that allow individual stlyes. Based on the basic functionality of jQuery UI dialog we override the 3 Javascript functions. To do that we wrote the following javascript-file which you [...]

Customizing Google Maps GMarker

All of you who might have wanted to change the appearance of a GMarker have also come across the problem, that a GMarker exists of more than just ONE image. Looking for a more comfortable way to change a GMarker’s style we finally found a website that does not only generate the necessary images but [...]

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