Tag Archives: JavaScript

Improving the Date Picker User Interface (UI)

Date pickers have become ubiquitous user interface elements in online forms. If you do not know what date pickers are, they are those interactive calendars that pop up to assist you when selecting a date. They are not useful in … Continue reading

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JavaScript Callbacks and Binding (and Callback Arguments and References)

Callback functions are used in JavaScript (JS) extensively. They are required for AJAX/XHR, event handling, and in popular JS libraries. However, passing around functions as arguments can cause headaches, especially for beginner JS programmers. Problems with binding/this One of the … Continue reading

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The Google Maps Tooltip Gets a Shadow (and HTML Support)

In the spirit of consistency, I decided to add a shadow to the tooltips (View the example). They just didn’t blend in with the rest of the Google Maps overlays. So I set out to replicate the “standard” Google Maps … Continue reading

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Batch Geocoding with the Google Maps API

I’ve been working more and more with the Google Maps API recently. And one thing strikes me as odd; it’s difficult to find examples of how to retrieve geocodes for addresses. If you’re going to implement the API in a … Continue reading

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Custom Tooltips for the Google Maps API

Welcome to my JavaScript blog, onemarco.com, or as I like to call it, Blog de Alionso. I’ve been developing with JavaScript for about six months now and I’ve learned so much from others’ blogs. I’ll be sharing some of the … Continue reading

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