PopupWindow v2.0.1.1 and version name changes

A bug was introduced in 2.0.1 that has been fixed. If you downloaded 2.0.1, please download the new version from the box.net widget with the date of 02/20/2008.

This will be the last release with version numbers. From now on all future release with just be name according to the release date ex: popupwindow20080220.zip

PopupWindow v2.0.1 now available

Quick little thing. I’ve updated PopupWindow to now support the location and menubar attribute as suggested by Matthew. You can download the latest from the box.net sidebar.

Remember to comment here with your suggestions. Thanks

PopupWindow v2.0.0 now available

It’s been awhile but now PopupWindow version 2.0 has been released. Here is what changed:

cleaned up the index.html example page.
added the ability to have the popups open in the same window. request by Cameron
fixed a major bug where the settings variables wasn’t vared.

Go get it from the box.net widget  —>

PopUpWindow is officially a “Most Popular” jQuery plugin. Who’s using it?

Damn I feel good and shocked right now. Who would have thought that a jQuery plugin I wrote on a whirlwind would get this much attention. I think I literally wrote the first draft within 5 minutes. At the time I was working at revamping a website that used a lot of popupwindows and needed a way to manage the different sizes of the windows. Our the next couple of days I kept adding to it and decided to release it to the public. It’s grown over time to what it is today.

What I would like to know how is who’s using it? Click here to go to the “homepage” for the plugin and leave a comment with a link to your website. Tell me in the comment what your think about it. If anything it will give you a little traffic since the page is getting between 150 -200 visits a day.

I feel honored.

Andrea over at andreacfm, has started what I consider to be one of the coolest projects: creating custom tags out of jQuery plugins. Personally I really haven’t been a fan of the new ColdFusion tags because of the amount of javascript that is loaded when you want to use them. By using jQuery, this really isn’t a issue. Plus it’s jQuery for God’s sake!

So why do I feel so honored? Well there is actually a custom tag that was created out of my PopWindow Plugin!

jQuery: PopUpWindow new release and new home.

PopUpWindow now has a real permanent home in the jQuery Plugin repository. Which means that you can actually download a zip file! To check it out by going to it’s new page:

http://jquery.com/plugins/project/PopupWindow

This latest release adds support for centering window by using the “center” setting. Thank to  blueox for his contribution.

WTF: I’m blacklisted!

UPDATE: Sandy responded below and it’s official: I am a jerk for jumping the gun.
On Friday, there I am reading some Fullasagoog feed posts and come across this one by Sandy Clark. Essentially the post was about getting around the XHTML restriction on using the target attribute with anchor tags with CSS and Javascript. I thought that I would leave a comment telling her about jQuery and my PopupWindow plugin. Why reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to and maybe she would become a jQuery convert (that was actually the plan there).

I write out my comment and leave it there and go on my marry way.

Today I go to see if the comment is up on the post and it isn’t. I think well maybe I did something wrong since I’ve always had problems with my work computer and the funkiness that is FireFox. I sit down and write out my comment again and click submit and I’m thrown to a blacklist page! WTF, why am I blacklisted from leaving comments! I know I’m a jerk, but am I that big of one?

PopUpWindow: v05142007 now available

For some reason, people were still having problem with plugin causing a syntax error in IE. It seems that the link was to an old version, so I refixed the problem and uploaded it again. For those having the problem, redownload the plugin and leave any comments if you find anything else.

I can’t believe this little piece of code is this popular. It’s truly amazes me.

Go download popupwindow

PopupWindow: Critcal bugfix now available

I just fixed a major bug in PopWindow that was causing IE to bottom out. If you’re using the plugin, you need to download the new release ASAP.

PopupWindow updated! Supports profiles now.

UPDATE: I didn’t mention this, but there is an index.html file in the plugin’s zip file that demos and explains how to use the plugin.

PopupWindow has been updated yet again!!!!

The big news is that now it supports creating your own profiles that you can call instead of having to pass settings in each link tag. Check it out:

You create a couple of profiles for PopupWindow like so:

var profiles = {
window800: {
height:800,
width:800,
status:1
},

window200: {
height:200,
width:200,
status:1,
resizable:0
}
};

Load them into the plugin:

$(function(){
$(”.popupwindow”).popupwindow(profiles);
});

Then when you want to use this profile, you just call it in the rel attribute like so:

<a href=”http://www.jquery.com” class=”popupwindow” rel=”window200″>Profile Example 2</a>

This is WAY easier then passing in value in the rel attribute like before. Of course you can still do that if you want, but I recommend creating and using your own profiles from now on.

Other updates to the plugin include:

I removed resize as a setting and add the correct setting resizable. This will break backwards compatibility, but in order to get profiles working correctly, it was a must.

I removed example text from this js file and made an index.htm file to house examples, which now pulls the latest jquery library from jquery.com so you can actually run the examples

Go grab the latest code from here.