Author Archives: Jesper

Geolocation API in Firefox 3.5

With the relatively new 3.5+ release  comes a new Geolocation API that enables geographical positioning of the browser client. Positioning is done through an array of means: “Common sources of location information include Global Positioning System (GPS) and location inferred … Continue reading

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Google maps – highlight sidebar text on marker mouseover

Sometimes when integrating a Google map on a site it is useful to give feedback to the user when hovering the mouse over a map marker. While not very difficult to achieve, it may not be completely straight forward to … Continue reading

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Smart CSS trick to add icon to all outgoing links

Use this piece of CSS to add an icon to all links that is not to mydomain a:not([href*="mydomain"]) {  padding-right: 10px;  background: transparent url(“images/aoutside.gif”) center right no-repeat; Popularity: 5% [?]

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Component could not be upgraded – error with Media Player 11 and Vista

When trying to view some digital rights managed content I was instructed to upgrade Media Player, but the upgrade halted and I got the “Component could not be upgraded” message. No matter what I tried I could not get around … Continue reading

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Simple Google Maps plugin for wordpress

What is it? This is a demo post for a little plugin I wrote that uses custom fields in WordPress together with Google’s HTTP geo coding API and Google Maps to produce a map with a marker in the post. … Continue reading

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