Create your own items in IE's Context-Menu

I don't know about you, but one of the things I do all the time, when developing web apps, is "Right Click - View Source" to show the HTML behind a page. Not only do I use this to see how other peopl...

1 Nov 2000 | Keywords: Debug, Menu, Hidden | Read »

Creating a quick link launch box

I came up with this solution from a requirement of a contact management db I was working on. Every page on the site needed to have a list of the "agencies" and "contacts" with links to open the respe...

4 Dec 2000 | Keywords: view, link, open | Read »

Decipher domino error messages

How many times have you read an error message from the Domino server that you thought meant one thing only to find the cause was something else altogether. It happens to me all the time!! For example...

19 Apr 2001 | Keywords: error | Read »

JavaScript PickList, Version 1.1

If I had a penny for every posting on Notes.net that asks about reproducing @PickList functionality on the web I would have about, oooh, two pounds. There is a response somewhere on there, from mysel...

12 Dec 2000 | Keywords: PickList, View, JavaScript | Read »

Redefining the look of HTML

Are you bored with those old, gray buttons and text boxes? I bet you are! Well, why not change them? It's easy with Cascading Style Sheets, new from the W3C. Does that sound like some cheesy ad on lo...

28 Feb 2001 | Keywords: Style Sheets, CSS | Read »

Listing search results in groups

Searching domino may be simple and, sometimes, even powerful, but when it comes to displaying the results in a browser we, the developers, are left fairly restricted. There seem to be several ways of...

8 Jan 2001 | Keywords: search, results | Read »

Hiding attachments (without noscript tag!)

Don't worry it is not the infamous noscript tag method. We all know about that one by now, don't we!? This is a much cleaner way of doing it. I never liked that method anyway, it seems a bit perverse...

19 Jan 2001 | Keywords: attachment, hide | Read »

Attachments Manager R1.0

You may have noticed that, recently, I have published a couple of articles talking about how to work around the fact that the vanilla look of attachments on the web is like this: ...

24 Jan 2001 | Keywords: file, attachment, noscript, remove, delete, upload | Read »

Exam 190-513: Using JavaScript in Domino R5 Applications

Yep, you guessed it; Yesterday I did the JavaScript exam. Why am I telling you, you may well ask? Well, firstly to show-off (I got 94%) and secondly to let you know what it was like and some of the "...

21 Feb 2001 | Keywords: JavaScript, exam | Read »

Make life a little easier with Bookmarklets

What are Bookmarklets? As far as I can tell they are simply Bookmarks that use JavaScript or, as the ...

2 Apr 2001 | Keywords: favourites, bookmarks | Read »