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Vanilla

Recently, I’ve been working to remove jQuery dependencies on personal projects. I outlined some of that effort with the refactoring of my A-Z Directory module. But I turned my attention to my joomla.bmorecreativeinc.com site, which as you might have guessed, is a Joomla site which serves as my demonstration, documentation, and download repository for my three Joomla modules. I was using jQuery for some basic functionality, namely a scroll-to-top arrow in the site footer and a mobile navigation slideToggle animation.

Standing Rib Roast

Consider this my first and only food-related post. I am not a foodie, but I did use Anne Burrell’s recipe for standing rib roast and it was out of this world. What follows is Anne Burrell’s recipe with slight modifications based on my experience with it.

The A-Z Directory Module – Version 5.4.0

Version 5.4.0 of the A-Z Directory module was a complete refactoring of the Javascript, eliminating the jQuery and Bootstrap dependencies. Most of the module Javascript dealt with AJAX calls, click events, and basic DOM manipulation. Converting these functions from jQuery to native Javascript was fairly straightforward. The functionality of displaying a modal if a user clicks on the contact name, and supporting the tabs and sliders within that modal, was where the real challenge lied.

<wbr> tag not supported in Mac Firefox

The <wbr> tag is a nifty piece of markup introduced in HTML5, that specifies where in a text it would be okay to add a line-break. Unfortunately, Firefox on Macs do not support the <wbr> tag.

LinkedIn Company Updates API call returns null

Troubleshooting an issue a user was having with my LinkedIn Company Updates Joomla module, I couldn’t replicate his issue. He had correctly followed the instructions outlined in the module, but was receiving a “null” message when he enabled Debug Mode.