Blog

• Detecting virtual keyboards (when typing in an input field)

  Feb 12, 2016

  How to differentiate between physical and virtual keyboards in a web application by measuring the time between keydown and keyup events.

• Emulating HTML 5 support in current browsers

  Aug 18, 2009

  Building Fiks.html5, a forwards-compatible script for emulating HTML 5 elements like details in older browsers including IE, Firefox 2, and WebKit.

• A little PHP CRUD

  Apr 28, 2009

  A simple CRUD router for PHP that models Rails' RESTful controllers.

• Ruby on Rails: Complex forms + auto_complete

  Jan 9, 2009

  A monkey patch for ActionView::FormHelper and FormBuilder to make DHH's auto_complete plugin work with Ryan Bates' complex forms in Rails.

• Auto expanding textarea in Opera and Konqueror

  Feb 25, 2008

  A JavaScript solution for auto-expanding textareas that works in Opera and Konqueror, where the common scrollHeight approach fails.