September 25, 2007
Just noticed something quirky today regarding jQuery’s slideToggle effect in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. (I’m guessing the use of jQuery’s slideDown and slideUp will give you the same problem.) I’ve been creating some nice sliding div effects these past couple of weeks in work and wondering why the slide animation in IE6+ was so jagged and clunky, while Firefox and Safari rendered it perfectly. Through the process of elimination and some hair loss, I figured it out.
The fix
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September 15, 2007
UPDATE: (Oct. 26th, 2009): I’ve just released a new version of Coda-Slider. Check out the details here. The original version referred to in this post remains available for download.
These last couple of weeks in work I’ve been getting to grips with the jQuery JavaScript library to provide some cool effects on an interface I’ve been building. One effect I hoped to create was a tabbed sliding div type thing, like Panic have on their Coda site. I couldn’t find anything quite like that ready-made with jQuery, so I went about doing it myself. Using Gian Carlo Mingati’s excellent slideViewer as a starting point, I was able to achieve the desired effect. At the risk of getting sued, I’ve called it Coda-Slider.
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