avanderzwan

Okay. So ‘Browse’ has been rolled into something called ‘Column Browser’. If you want to get iTunes 9 to have the same pane layout as the old, default, ‘Browse’ option, you can. Here is what you are going to want to do:

1) Turn on Column Browser: View > Show Column Browser
2) Show Albums as well as artists: View > Column Browser > Albums
3) Show Genres as well as albums and artists: View > Column Browser > Genres
4) Setup Column Browser to show up above your song lists: View > Column Browser > On Top

This plugin is meant to expedite the basic process of making form fields empty or clear on focus and refill on blur, depending on a few specs… a watermark. The three different scenarios that I have built for are represented.

1. A normal form field watermark that empties on focus and refills on blur.
2. A value that is set by the server trumps anything that the plugin does. (Note: this way, if a user has to fill out the form again because one of the fields didn’t validate, the server can send values so that the user doesn’t have to refill the whole form)
3. There may be a time when you want to ignore the plugin and keep your label visible. Just add a ‘ignore’ class to your label and the plugin doesn’t touch it.
4. This is an extra couple of lines written so that validation works correctly. What it does is it empties the fields that have not been touched by the user on submit. That way, we can run our validation against those fields, and we don’t submit our label.

This solution focuses on accessibility as it does not remove the label, just moves it off the viewport. This way, if a user does not have Javascript, CSS, or uses a screen reader, they will still get normal labels.

View a demo
Download plugin (link to jQuery plugins)

Please let me know what you think about it, or if there is anything I should do to improve.

Touring around Grand Rapids and shooting with a 35mm camera brings me back to my days as a college student. Here are some of the black and white shots that I took this past weekend. I love photography and will be shooting a lot more in the near future, I am certain.

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The 6th Street Bridge

The 6th Street Bridge Webs

The 6th Street Bridge Side

Kids Playing with Art

Highway (131 & 196)

maxImage is a jquery plugin that I wrote a few months ago that automatically scales images based on how much room they have in the browser window. The image will always fill your browser window. I have built a basic demo mini site for the plugin.

Note: For some reason I have lost the post that originally contained the release of my plugin. I would like a place for users of the plugin to contact me and let me know how use of the plugin is going. Please use this space, the comment area to let me know how using maxImage is going, what you would like to see added or changed.