I long thought it impossible to have a drop down fall over a flash movie as you would often want in a header of a website.

However, I just saw a website where they accomplished this. After investigating, I found a JQuery library that allows you to do this.

It involves a new way of embedding flash into pages. With just a div tag and a few lines of javascript you can easily embed flash AND have the opportunity to display drop downs over them.

Here’s the link showing it in action:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/flashembed/wmode.html

If you know of any other ways, please pipe up and let us know.

Here’s another link for a great CSS drop down menu:
http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

Update
It turns out that it’s not the awesomeness of jquery tools that allows you to do this. It’s simply a parameter wmode=transparent that allows it. Jquery tools does look really cool, however.

Another good link for CSS menus is http://purecssmenu.com/ It is an online CSS menu generator.

It is a AJAX development environment that allows you to easily develop applications like Google Maps and GMail. The language is Java (not javascript), althought it ends up outputting a mixture of javascript and HTML when you “compile” it.

I don’t know much of Java, but this has peaked my interest. I’m definitely going to be playing around with this one.

var yourInt;
yourInt = parseInt(str);

More Info: http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/parseint.html

Excuse my exuberance, but I’ve been creating a lot of long regular expressions from scratch lately and it’s time consuming! This is a great resource for anyone wanting to use regular expressions in their code.

var myVar;<br />
myVar = 'HELLO';
myVar = myVar.toLowerCase();
alert(myVar);
The output is, of course, “hello”.

As you could guess, the equivalent to vbscript’s ucase() function is .toUpperCase(). Pretty self explanatory. Here’s a link to other javascript string functions.

Yahoo!, however does have a free geocoder! http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

Matthew Hazlett just wrote a great tutorial on using both of these APIs to create a map application that takes a street address and turns it into a Google Map!
Here’s the link.

http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/GeoLocation.asp

Logging Client Side JavaScript Errors to the Server – The Code Project – AJAX / Atlas

An article just came out in CodeProject, however that claims to do everything I was looking for. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet, but when I do, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Here’s the article: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/AddingGoogleSuggest.asp

For info on how to use it, check out DevGuru’s page on IndexOf