Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

Busy like hell these days with a inhouse project for my firm.

working on HTML / CSS as well as graphing / charting for the project.

the toolset i am using

1. Open Flash Chart
2. FaceBox
3. Jquery
4. Jsp
5. MySql

A simple tip i am writing as i was experimenting with Facebox, Open Flash Chart, and a large array of javascript in one page.

and i found one error.

while the default samples provided at open flash chart website work fatastically when working alone but have a piculiar to flash problem while working with jquery specially facebox.

when a facebox method is called it goes in the backround while the flash remains in the foreground. no matter what z-index game you try but flash always remain on top of facebox.

A bit of googling yielded http://joelg.info/problem-with-flash-appearing-on-top-of-facebo

but this talked about adding a parameter in flash embed object code in HTML

but while working on advance javascript only method of open flash chart i was using just swfobject code and hence to obtain above requested feature we need

X.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent”);

to be added in the function calling. where X is the SWFobject.

Hope this helps someone else finding solution a bit easily.

Note : tested on Firefox 3.5 and IE 6.0

Hi along with my-profiles plugin work i had a need to extract favicons from various sites so i created this simple bookmarklet using google services which will extract the favicon of the current opened page for you.

I tried it in various scenario and seems to be working fine for me (FF 3.5 only till now.)

To add the bookmarklet just drag this link to taskbar : Extract Favicons

Note : been a lot busy these days with my official work and some inhouse development. for the curious ones : currently working on implementing

1. flot
2. Open Flash chart

Besides these working on SQL optimization for my inhouse project.

Its my pleasure to annouce that from now on my plugin for wordpress (my profiles) will be hosted at

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-profiles/

I have got time just to add my current working version to wordpress plugin’s repo.

but will need support from community to add more sites to it…