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var input = “hello222″;
var ok = false;

var dob_regex = /^([0-9]){2}(\/){1}([0-9]){2}(\/)([0-9]){4}$/; // DD/MM/YYYY
var email_regex = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9.-]{2,4}$/; // email address
var username_regex = /^[\w.-]+$/; // allowed characters: any word . -, ( \w ) represents any word character (letters, digits, and the underscore _ ), equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_]
var num_regex = /^\d+$/; // numeric digits [...]

29 Apr, 2009

Browser Market Share (Year 2009)

Posted by: eisabai In: WWW| Web Development Blog

According to this website, Internet Explorer* still makes up the largest share this year (2009).

The top 5 browsers are as follows:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 66.97%
Firefox 21.96%
Safari 8.20%
Chrome 1.22%
Opera 0.70%
*This includes all versions of Internet Explorer.
Source: Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines

28 Apr, 2009

Open link in a new window using jQuery

Posted by: eisabai In: Snippets| xHTML

HTML:
<a href="http://www.google.com" rel="external">Google</a>
Javascript:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a[rel=external]").attr(‘target’, ‘_blank’);
});
Or
$(document).ready(function() {
$(‘a[rel="external"]‘).click( function() {
window.open( $(this).attr(‘href’) );
return false;
});
});

27 Apr, 2009

Code to embed Google Map and Street View

Posted by: eisabai In: Google| Snippets| Tutorials

You will need to sign up for the Google Maps API key and replace “INSERT_API_KEY_HERE” with your API key.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Google Map and Street View</title>

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=INSERT_API_KEY_HERE" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

function load() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) [...]

27 Apr, 2009

sIFR vs FLIR – Font Replacement Techniques

Posted by: eisabai In: CSS| Design| xHTML

sIFR
sIFR stands for Scalable Inman Flash Replacement and it is an open source JavaScript and Adobe Flash dynamic web fonts implementation, enabling the replacement of text elements on HTML web pages with Flash equivalents.
Pros

Looks nice
Does not require a server side language
Text created with sIFR can be copied/selected
Graceful degradation (If flash is not installed, [...]


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