I'm developing a firefox addon and would like to have a fixed position (relative to the browser) semitransparent panel with 3 icons shown at the corner of every browser content area. These buttons will have to be able to communicate with a site that is not the site shown.
I know it would be possible to inject a fixed position div to html but I want the buttons to communicate with external site when pressed and also query information when they are loaded so I think that would violate same origin policy. This wouldn't work with image or other direct media urls either.
What would be the easiest way to create the floating icon panel?
After about of week of work I found it. Here is the answer, I hope this helps someone else:
http://marcada.ms/2010/02/getting-content-on-top-of-the-browser-space-using-xul/
The above adds the panel, transparency is not working (at least not in linux what I work with) because of the following bug. Sigh... opened in 2007 and not closed in 2012.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408284
edit2: I ended inserting html data to the body of the document using files from extension folder. Works very well including transparency.
edit3: If anyone is interested how this works in my plugin, check my live site at http://www.upmarker.com
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The tiles in the "new Tab" window of the recently used websites consist sometimes of a small logo and a website screenshot and sometimes of just one big logo?
What is the algorithm for the creation of the tiles?
My own website is displayed as small logo (favicon) in bottom right corner and a totally blank screenshot. What's wrong?
The component responsible for doing that is called activity-stream and is developed on GitHub here. The code is then mirrored into the Firefox codebase when a new release is created.
As far as I can tell, the code responsible for fetching a website's icon for the tiles is this which, in order, tries:
checks if the website provided a favicon which has an high enough resolution (currently it's 96x96);
verifies that there's a tippy-top fallback icon (probably from here);
tries to request a rich-icon from here;
if all the above fails, it tries to get a screenshot of the page and pin it in the tile.
As far as I can tell the easiest fix is to provide a good enough favicon from your website.
My Boostrap framework is working fine on Chrome and Safari. It also is mostly on Explorer and Firefox. However, in Explorer and Firefox, a couple of images on interior pages appear to have an offset applied. The issue will be apparent when viewing the pages:
notagamebook.com/the-author-2
notagamebook.com/excerpts
I have been unable to find anyone else who has encountered the same issue. And I realize a manual fix won't be all that difficult, but I would like to keep the images in the framework and figure out what is happening in case it occurs again in the future.
EDIT
After attempting to fix this issue manually, I have realized it is NOT a Bootstrap issue. Firefox and Explorer are pushing the first piece of content following the page label to the right. It did so even when coding outside of the Bootstrap framework. I tried putting a piece of text as the first item and got the same result.
I've found the solution to this problem: There was a difference in the bottom margin being applied to the title in Explorer and Firefox, pushing the content to the right of the title div.
I've just downloaded the latest Nivo slider 3.2 as I need it on a responsive site and out of the box with no modifications the transitions in ie7 and ie8 don't work.
They simply flick between images - no sliceDown or Fade they just rotate.
I've used it in the past with no problems - I've just view 2.6 in ie7 and ie8 and it's fine.
Does anyone know what can be done to fix it?
I've just checked out their demo too http://nivo.dev7studios.com/responsive-demo/ and the same issue is happening there.
Cheers
Just sharing what worked on my site -- I was using the default demo code, pretty much unedited from the download. It was beautiful and responsive (which I wanted) in all of the browsers I tested, except any version of i.e.. If i.e., it was just a rotation, no effects.
However, when I designated a size dimension for the wrapper div and the image divs, the transitions worked in i.e. also. (height: 350px;) You can specify the dimension in your css/stylesheet or inline -- if that's what it takes.
On my site, I only needed to specify a height dimension; for your site, you might need both height and width, or just width. A little experimentation was all it took.
But, with the height dimension specified, this threw off the display in the other browsers, so the dimension needs to be specified in terms of a "hack" for internet explorer: either a separate stylesheet just for internet explorer users or by using whatever your favorite internet explorer hacking method is: underscore, or \9, and so on. Here's a list of useful internet explorer workarounds, just for reference: internet explorer hacks
I know we hate to recommend hacking, but we all do it :). Would love to find out why this one worked for me, maybe there's a better way without the hack.
I have manually implemented the Flattr button to my site.
In Firefox (Windows) the "popout" covers the button so one can't press it.
Any other browser renders the popout in the correct place. Can someone confirm this? Or is it a conflict on my site?
Since you don't mention which site is yours I'm left to speculate on the reasons for this and if I do then I think it is that your body-element doesn't start at the top left of your browser and that therefor positioning of the popout fails due to browsers inability to correctly account for offset body elements.
We've had reports of people experiencing this problem in eg. WordPress where the admin-bar that's showed when a user is logged in pushes the entire site down 20 pixels or something and makes the position of the popout be of by 20 pixels. Could it be something similar for you - that you're logged in in Firefox and not in other browsers?
As far as I know there's no workaround for this limitation - eg. jQuery can't account for it either.
Good thing though: If your layout has a body with an offset or something else that makes the popout not work for you you can disable it by setting popout 0 in the settings of the button.
I have a web app I'm building in Dashcode, currently every thing is working as advertised. I'm using the browser template and was able to modify it a bit, got the xml working to connect images and their description. Now I want to add a simple OnClick event that sends the image to fullscreen but I can't find any documentation for that. I'm pretty sure this is easily done so I'm missing something here? Any help greatly appreciated.
Tom
Taking over the screen is a bit complicated (if your talking about a full screen experience like youtube), but full screen in the browser window is defiantly possible. The simplest method is to have the click event open a link to the image location. This would load the image in full resolution in the browser window. A more elegant approach would be to load the image url into the source of a image dashcode object. and have that objects visibility only appear overs the whole web app when the Oncick event occurs. If you are talking about a built in function in dashcode to achieve a full screen/browser image, your out of luck.