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

I found out this morning that Monster.com is using SimpleModal to power the modal dialogs on their site! Which, of course, means they are using jQuery too! This is the first major corporate site that I have discovered using SimpleModal, so I was pretty excited when I discovered it.

Funny story on how I found out…

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In case you haven’t heard, jQuery 1.3 has been released! In addition to being jQuery’s 3rd birthday, the team has a number of new announcements, including Sizzle (a brand new CSS selector engine), a new API browser (developed by Remy Sharp) and the formation of the jQuery Foundation.

I tested SimpleModal (tests and demos) with jQuery 1.3 and everything seems to be working as expected. After reading about all of the speed improvements, I thought it would be interesting to run some tests (Firebug 1.3 Profiler) comparing the SimpleModal demos with jQuery 1.2.6 and jQuery 1.3:

I haven’t looked into why 1.3 has more calls for the Contact Form, but even so, the execution time (ms) has improved for each one!

Congratulations to the jQuery team and Happy Birthday!

While working on a new site design, I found an interesting bug in WordPress 2.7. I created two new pages to use as “Front page displays”, one called Blog and one called Home. To create the pages, I clicked on Pages > Add New, entered a Title and clicked Publish.

I then went to my Reading Settings (Settings > Reading) and set the static Front and Posts page to the pages I just created. Going back to my site, I tested out the new static pages only to find they didn’t work.

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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