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Animating Google Chrome Extension Page Action Icons

2010-08-08 Development AnimatedGIFs / ChromeExtensions / Development / JavaScript / setTimeout

I'm enjoying using (and working on) Library Lookup, but I'm not entirely satisfied with the Page Action icons that pop up when searching, or when a book is found, or not found. In particular, I wanted a small animation while the search was ongoing, something like this: .

Unfortunately, the animated …

IE binds to id attributes, or “How I learned to love var”

2010-03-07 Development Ajax / Development / IE / JavaScript / LibraryHippo

I recently converted the LibraryHippo “Family Status” page to use AJAX to fetch individual card statuses, instead of having the server aggregate all the statuses and send the complete summary back to the user. It was fairly straightforward, with one notable exception – Internet Explorer.

When using Firefox or Chrome, as …