Considering the number of changes and new features, I’ve decided to release 1.3 as a beta version. This release covers most of the common requests I receive for SimpleModal: forced focus on the dialog (prevent tabbing away), ESC/overlay-click to close dialog and an appendTo option.

*NOTE*: Moving forward, all issue/bug/feature requests should be made on the issues page: http://code.google.com/p/simplemodal/issues/list

Download: http://code.google.com/p/simplemodal/downloads/list

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Back in August, I blogged about “three fairly significant browser issues” I had encountered while using jQuery. With the release of jQuery 1.3, and subsequent minor versions, I thought I’d take a look back at those browser issues and see if any of them had been resolved.

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I meant to release this a few weeks ago – sorry for the delay. This release fixes two IE bugs:

• Fixed IE6 positioning issue (position: [,20] did not work)
• Fixed IE issue with jQuery 1.3+ (issue with $.boxModel property)

There are a number of fixes and enhancements on my list for the future versions of SimpleModal:

• Provide dialog appendTo option. The current default is body
• Provide additional close options: ESC and overlay click
• Find solution for dialogs with no width/height given – determine dynamically
• Find solution for dialogs that are larger than viewport
• Force focus on dialog – prevent interaction with page

Let me know which of those you would most like to see. Also, if you have any other feature requests or bugs to report, please report them on the issues page.

Links: Project Page | jQuery Plugins Page

Includes IE6 positioning bug fixes reported by Deepak Mehta and James Taylor.

• Removed iframe option (use wmode property for object and embed elements)
• Fixed IE positioning issues (including horizontal scrolling)
• Updated jQuery version requirement to 1.2.2
• Added horizontal scrolling test and more position option tests

Links: Project Page | jQuery Plugins Page

Includes bug fixes reported by calderon.joe (thanks joe):

• Fixed iframe errors when iframe option set to false
• Fixed auto centering to use data width/height if container width/height is not set

Also changed the default for the iframe option to false.

Links: Project Page | jQuery Plugins Page

After almost 11 months, I have finally released an update to SimpleModal.

This release fixes a number of browser related issues (mostly with IE) but also adds a few new features.

Some of the features include:

• Automatic centering of the modal dialog, unless overridden with the new position option
• Ability to call $.modal.close(); from the onClose callback without causing infinite loop
• Eliminated the need for external CSS for IE6 dialog positioning
• Added a zIndex option for compatibility with other plugins
• Element resizing when the browser size is changed
• Added an IFRAME to every modal dialog to prevent object bleed-through

Please see the project page for a full list of features, changes and upgrading instructions.

I also updated the demos, including the contact form, which now has the option to display a subject and cc field, UTF-8 support and minor security features.

If you find any issues or have any questions, please let me know.

After receiving numerous “downloading” errors (0×80040508), I was finally able to install Google’s new browser, Chrome.

Suppressing the temptation to try out all of the new features, I jumped right in and started surfing the web. I’m actually using Chrome to type up this post and so far, everything seems to be working fine.

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Despite the vast improvements in Firefox 3, I’ve still been using Firefox 2 because of the instability of Firebug 1.2 (beta versions). The final Firebug 1.2 version was released recently, and many of the issues have been resolved, however, I thought I’d post the steps I took to run both Firefox versions together:

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