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Fancybox and Tempo Javascript Not Working Together on Samsung Galaxy Android 2.3.3

For a mobile site we’re successfully using the Tempo Javascript rendering engine, used to create a list of items from some json data. This items was composed of a visible part and an hidden part to be shown with Fancybox on user click. Everything works great on desktop browser, iPhone and even a number of [...]

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Newsletter 3.0.0 beta 6: Popup Ready!

Usually a beta version should not be used to add new features, but since many users are asing me a decent popup integration, I tried to satisfy them. On version beta 6 (see the downloads area), you can use a special link to generate the content for popups (see the subscription panel/popup). It’s easy to [...]

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CSS and Select: space between the options and the arrow

As you may know, CSS does not supply many rules to style a select input type element. Most of the time you see a nice skinned select element, it is a replacement, made with div, span, css and dom manipulation. But when you are satify with common select rendering (and in most situations they more [...]

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.mobi Domain and iPhone Web Page Rendering (Safari)

I discovered, from a very old post on a blog, that a web site under the .mobi TLD is threated in a “different” way by Safari on iPhone. For who are used to play with mobile sites and the viewport metatag, this one is partially respected by iPhone while the site is under a .mobi [...]

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Newsletter Updates Module 1.0.2

On my downloads area there is a premium module that works with Newsletter 3.0. This module will be free only until the official release of Newsletter 3.0. Newsletter Updates sends emails automatically to targeted subscribers with a chosen theme.The default theme can be configured to check for new content on specific blog categories. Emails can [...]

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Newsletter 3.0.0 beta 4 Released

As excepted, the first release was not so stable, so the new beta 4 is now on downloads area. On beta 4, other than fox some bugs, has been enabled the “send on specific time” for standard emails (feature requested many, many and many times). There is a new theme as well, but it is [...]

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Newsletter 3.0.0 Beta 2 Available

On my downloads area there is the new version of Newsletter plugin. This 3.0 version has been redesigned and reorganized and “merged” with Pro version. That does not means there are the Pro features, but the base code, from now on, will be the same. This version has a new composer with a new theme [...]

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Lite Cache 2.1.0 Released

Just released the version 2.1.0 of Lite Cache plugin has a nice new feature: it can cache only recent posts avoiding to fill up the cache folder with old posts page that have a very low traffic (and so there is no improvement in caching them). This feature, even if really particular, has been suggested [...]

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Mobile Devices Orientation Change and Javascript

These days I’m working on a mobile site discovering how hard is to address all the mobile device behaviors, screen sizes, viewports and so on. One problem is to detect withing a browser the orientation to adapt the content or generally the user experience. You many know there are the “media queries” to create different [...]

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Header And Footer: How To Use The Init Configuration

On version 1.3.7 released today there is a new important options on Header and Footer plugin dedicated to coders who need to add small function to blogs without modify the used theme. This options is a piece of PHP code that can be added on Header and Footer configuration and that will be executed on [...]

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