Neil Craig

Hi, I'm Neil Craig, a web-developer from Oxfordshire in the UK. If you're interested, you can read more about me on my "About The Dot Product" page. Cheers Neil Craig

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Posts by Neil Craig

UPDATED: A simple method of transferring MySQL Database(s)/Tables between servers

Apr 15th

Posted by Neil Craig in General Web-Development

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We’ve recently been working on a Web-Server migration for a regular client at work, part of which involved transferring the MySQL Databases (or strictly the schemas) for each of their websites from their old Web-Server to the shiny new replacement. In doing this, I rediscovered a really handy method which really simplifies transferring MySQL data More >

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Mouseenter/Mouseleave native support in FireFox

Apr 7th

Posted by Neil Craig in FireFox

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For quite a while now, i’ve been trying to get native support for mouseenter/mouseleave JavaScript events included in the Gecko engine used in FireFox and other Gecko-based Web Browsers via a feature request on mozilla bugzilla system (see my mouseenter/mouseleave feature request on bugzilla). Internet Explorer has led the way with native support for mouseenter/mouseleave More >

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Multibox – a Multimedia alternative to Lightbox/Slimbox for Mootools 1.2

Apr 6th

Posted by Neil Craig in General Web-Development

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Since the original Lightbox was released by Lokesh Dhakar many moons ago, we’ve all been fascinated with it’s JavaScript trickery. Those of us who are Web-Developers working with/for Design Agencies will no doubt be very familiar with many subsequent, similar JavaScripts such as Slimbox.
I’ve tried out a fair number of MooTools compatible Lightbox clones/improvements and More >

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HTML5 input elements and their data formats

Mar 31st

Posted by Neil Craig in General Web-Development

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As a follow-up to my article on js5hf – an unobtrusive javascript method for converting text type inputs to HTML5 input types, I wanted to put together a simple example of the new HTML5 inputs to demonstrate the formats in which they output data. So…you can see my example of HTML5 input element data formats More >

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JSH5F – A Javascript method to enable HTML5 Form Elements in Browsers which support them

Mar 29th

Posted by Neil Craig in (X)HTML

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HTML 5 offers 13 new form input element types but Browser support for these new input types is very scant at present. However, with JSH5F, you can use the new HTML 5 form elements right now in supporting Browsers without causing problems for people using non-supporting browsers.

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UPDATE 2: HTML 5 Offline Application Caching (Javascript localStorage/sessionStorage) – A very simple, reasonably complete example

Mar 24th

Posted by Neil Craig in (X)HTML

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In an effort to stay ahead or at least alongside the game, I am starting to investigate the upcoming technologies of HTML5 and associated Javascript. In this article, i’ll cover a simple example of Javascript localStorage/sessionStorage, how to detect on-line/off-line status and off-line cache Manifest files.

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W3C compliant Adobe Flash embedding/insertion

Mar 22nd

Posted by Neil Craig in (X)HTML

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Adobe Flash is still very popular despite the massive improvements in Javascript animation over recent years. However, some important devices such as the Apple IPhone lack the capability to display Flash movies. Because of this and due to my immutable desire to produce W3C compliant HTML, I’ve recently had to think about the method I use to embed Adobe Flash movies in a web page.

This article is a short review of the two methods I consider best.