phatfusion

If a user changes text size on a browser, what do they expect to happen?

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:17:00 +0000

Only the text should scale, NOT site width & layout
Everything should scale, text AND layout

Cast you vote here and have your say!

Should we replicate page zooming in CSS? when the browser does it by default AND much better.

googlecode project

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:58:00 +0000

I'm in the process of updating my site, but as i'm off on holiday for a couple of weeks i thought i'd get something up and available for people to play with. I've not had a chance to do full browser testing yet so would appreciate if anyone could help out on that. Also please email me any bugs and fixes and all get them implemented as soon as i can when i get back.

I've created a phatfusion googlecode project to help with the development and maintenance of the scripts. The folder structure follows the same format as the mootools more SVN repos and therefore i have included the mootools more scripts in this project too.

THESE ARE 1.2 COMPATIBLE SCRIPTS!

http://phatfusion.googlecode.com/

note: best to look directly at the pages in the _demo and _docs folders as the index pages aren't linked up and working yet.

mootools 1.2

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:45:00 +0000

First off i must apologise for the lack of 1.2 compatible scripts, i am working on them! If you have managed to modify to scripts to work with 1.2, i would be grateful if you could leave a link in the forums for others to use until i can get official releases out! (hopefully very soon)

I think in most cases its just Fx.Transitions that need to change, but the best way to find out is to check the errors in firebug.

Phatfusion forum launched

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:57:00 +0000

Hopefully this will be a place where people can get help, post bug and even better post fixes. Discussions on improvements and new features are always welcome.

I've just set it up so no initial posts from me yet, i'll be moving things over from the comments on this blog to start with. But please go ahead and use it.

forum.phatfusion.net

a few bugs have been fix for multiBox

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:37:00 +0000

A bug with repeatedly open the same image has now been fixed. And if you don't have the title attribute, the controls will still show.

version 1.3.1

More multiBox updates

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Here's a few...

1. New option: 'showControls'. This will turn off the controls.

2. New option: 'offset'. This is an object containing x and y offsets for the box relative to it being centered.

3. New option: 'fixedTop'. This options allows you to specify a fixed top position to all boxes to open to.

4. New option: 'openFromLink'. This says if the box should open from the link thats clicked or from the center of the window.

5. Bug fix: the problem with movies or music still playing when closed or moved to the next item is now fixed.

i've also added a hidden iframe to the box so it will go over dropdown menus etc in IE6 and i've also added one to the overlay script.

now at version 1.3

if there is anything else that people would like let me know.

Flash in multibox fixed

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:31:00 +0000

There was a small bug with using flash files (swf) in multiBox. This has now been fixed (version 1.2.1)

multiBox update - Safari iframe fix.

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:00 +0000

The multiBox script has been updated to include a fix for the iframe caching issue in Safari.

The problem was happening when you used the browser back button, then it didn't matter which links you clicked/iframes viewed it would always show the content for the first item.

Well the fix was to assign a dynamic id to the iframe each time it was called, therefore forcing the browser to treat it as different and not cache the src.

this fix is in version 1.2

googleDrive

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:19:00 +0000

A little project i've been working on is now live!

googleDrive is a little google maps mash up that allows you to drive a little car around on the maps.

http://www.phatfusion.net/googledrive

I'm also planning a doing another version called googleRacer that will allow you to race on predefined circuits against the clock, for example the paris ringroad. I'm also thinking of doing this one with the sat view images instead.

comments and suggestions welcome.

opening links with imageMenu

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:15:00 +0000

To open links that are used in imageMenu, simply remove the onClick option:

var myMenu = new ImageMenu($$('#imageMenu a'),{
openWidth:310,
border:2
});

I've used the onClick option in my example code to demo some of the other features of the menu.

imageMenu update

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:55:00 +0000

The image menu script has been updated to fix a small bug. You probably won't notice it.

anyway its now at version 2.2

auto open MultiBox onDomReady

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:19:00 +0000

I've had this request a few times now, so i thought i'll post the code.

It's very simple. Just call the open function and pass the element in:

var box = {};
window.addEvent('domready', function(){
box = new MultiBox('mb', {descClassName: 'multiBoxDesc'});
box.open($('mb1'));
});

MultiBox - compatibility with mootools 1.2beta

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:06:00 +0000

Here is what you need to do to make the MultiBox script compatibile with mootools 1.2 beta 2.
I'm not releasing these updates in a script as i want to rewrite it when 1.2 gets released, so i can use all the nice new features.

Replace the following:

Fx.Styles with Fx.Morph
transition: Fx.Transitions.sineInOut with transition: Fx.Transitions.Sine.easeInOut
Class.empty with new Class()
this.containerEffects.stop() with this.containerEffects.cancel()

Multibox updates!

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:52:00 +0000

lots going on in this one!

onOpen / onClose optional functions have been added.
external urls and querystring parameters are now supported.
it auto detects the format (ie. jpg, flv, htm, etc) but now you can also specifiy what format the item should be. This will allow you to add querystring parameters to a jpg or flv for example.
a loading graphic has been added.
the replaying flv bugs has been fixed.
bugs with boxes closing and leaving residue have been fixed.

also zip files are now available for downloading for all scripts.

multibox is now at version 1.1

Validate updated

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:03:00 +0000

A few bugs have been fixed in the Validate script. It now submits the form! ;)

now at version 2.1

imageMenu updated (bug fixes)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:22:00 +0000

imageMenu's been updated with a couple of bug fixes.

Now at version 2.1

Initial Feedback & Development plan

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Hi to anyone reading this.

Initial feedback of the newly released and updated scripts has been positive but there have been a few requests. So here is what i'm thinking of doing...

imageMenu.

option to reveal the images from the center/left/right.

slideshow.

option to set the direction for the transition for wipe/slide effects for Next/Previous functions.

multiBox.

allow for quicktime options
allow for flash options
support for querystring parameters
support for external urls

if you have any other requests please leave a comment.

New year, new site

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Birch) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:45:00 +0000

So a another new year, a new year and this time a blog as well!

In this blog I will share ideas and thoughts i'm working on or i'm thinking about working on.

All code that's been released can be found at www.phatfusion.net

Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, etc.