Category Archives: jQuery

Using jQuery and JSONP to Get AIM Status

January 25, 2008 – 2:17 pm

For a new site, I wanted to have a DIV's background image be dependent on the online status of an AIM user. jQuery and the AIM Presence API make it easy.

First, the code:

$.getJSON("http://api.oscar.aol.com/presence/get?k=key&f=json&t=aimuser&c=?",
   function(result){
      if (result.response.data.users[0].state == 'online') {
       $("#status").css("background-image", "url('online.jpg')");
 …
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Using jQuery to Skip the TinyMCE Editor Toolbar When Using the Tab Key

June 20, 2007 – 5:41 pm

Problem: When using TinyMCE, the toolbar buttons (as well as one A tag w/no content used for a tooltip) are part of the tab order of the page so tabbing out of one control into the editor means tabbing through…

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Using jQuery to Show Flash on First Page Load in a Session and Show an Image on Successive Loads

January 15, 2007 – 4:07 pm

This may be the longest title of a blog post I've ever written. Anyway, a friend of mine is designing a site and wants to show a Flash header/menu on the first load of a page within a site but…

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