Flash appearing above absolutely positioned elements

I recently had an issue with some flash movies appearing above all content pneumonia the page. I tried giving absolutely positioned elements a very high zindex, bit it did not help art all. Search in Google for similar problem revealed that flash can be played in several modes.

By default all movies are played in window mode which allowes them to perform the best but such oddities as flash always on top will be happening.

Fixing my issue was rather easy. I just needed to add a wmode=opaque to the flash object. Job done.

tableFilter jQuery plugin

My colleague found this jQuery plugin. It allows you to sort and filter tables. It works for both IE and FF, but in IE it is pretty slow.

download tableFilter

JonDesign’s Smooth SlideShow 2.0

Great script  for producing smooth crossfade slideshow in JavaScript.

Sites that use it:

Source:

Related:

Jason Julien’s slidheshow script used on his portfolio site:

http://www.jasonjulien.com/#10

Mootorials

Excellent collection of tutorial articles for Mootools JavaScript library.

http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/mootorial

Bubble Tooltips

A great article telling about how to create CSS+JS tooltips.

http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php

Script.aculo.us Effects.queue article

http://blog.railsdevelopment.com/pages/effect/queue/

Creating DOM elements on the fly with graft

http://schf.uc.org/articles/2006/10/15/making-javascript-dom-a-
piece-of-cake-with-the-graft-function

Ajax Progress bar script

http://www.blackbirdblog.it/blog/archivio/2006/03/09/ajax-progress-bar/

Autosuggest / Autocomplete with Ajax v. 2.1

Found on the net a rather interesting Ajax script that suggests different variants for completion of user input as he/she types.

http://www.brandspankingnew.net/specials/ajax_autosuggest/
ajax_autosuggest_autocomplete.html?

Usable XMLHttpRequest in Practice article

http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Usability/usable-XMLHttpRequest/

Article that on exmaples shows criteria for a usable AJAX form. http://www.baekdal.com is generally a cool blog with a lot of useful info for every web designer/developer