While most of the time you can check the images your using, either you uploaded them manually or your script will see and, if missing, replacing it with a placeholder image. Sometimes however thats not particularly practical, like when your working mostly in javascript and don’t want to make an ajax call just to see if there an image. Thats the situation I ran into yesterday, and the solution is… Continue reading “Auto replace broken images.”
Unexpected Downtime
Seems one of my plugins developed a spontaneous syntax error. Looked at the code and it was fine, commented the line out and it at least loaded (although due to the now missing line it was filled with errors). Uncommented the line and it’s all goog again. So, literally nothing changed and it’s working again. I’ll try and figure out what exactly happened later but for now it’s up and thats good.
Hopefully there will be a post tomorrow or saturday, already know what it will be just need t find the time to make it.
Mobile Safari Webkit Flicking Animation Fix
Back from a little vacation/job change/illness, lets get back to it.
While developing a web based app with some seriously smooth animations behind it I noticed that they would flicker every time they started. Initially I thought it was due to the animation enhancer I had installed. The jQuery animation enhancer seamlessly changes the traditional jQuery animations with the CSS3 animations. On a desktop browser this has mixed results, with safari being faster and chrome being slightly slower, but on an iOS device (in this case an iPad) it was much much faster. Continue reading “Mobile Safari Webkit Flicking Animation Fix”