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Apr 19
2012

Device detection to single out the ipad for special styling

Posted by barb in php , Joomla , iPad , extensions

My friend and colleague Bill from Grumpy Engineering  helped me with this one:

I added this to the php block at the head of my template:

$isIPad = preg_match('/ipad/i', trim($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']));
if ($isIPad) $device="ipad";
else $device="not-ipad";

Apr 19
2012

Joomla solution for non-flash mp3 player

Posted by barb in mp3 , Joomla , iPad , html5 , extensions , audio

I searched the JED and the best I could come up with was to use Allvideos to create simple, single mp3 players for a website I'm working on.

The syntax of this pluggin is nice and simple:   {mp3}Name-of-file-without-extension{/mp3} or

{mp3remote}http://other-site.com/name-of-file-with-extension.mp3{/mp3remote}

Oct 11
2010

Working on an iPad...

Posted by barb in MyBlog , Joomla , iPad , Ignite Gallery

I'm writing this post on an iPad - trying to get used to some of the features - and to test whether I really need to buy the adminPad extension from the folks at JoomlaPraise.

One thing I noticed right away was the apparent lack of a scroll bar in the editor window. Turns out this is just how safari works on the iPad. One finger drag scrolls the whole page, two finger drag scrolls in the editor window -- or other scrollable areas on a site.

When I first discovered that boxes that should scroll just seemed cut off with no way to access the remaining text, I was checking out the newly launched site for Froggy Bottom Guitars. In an Ignite Gallery display, one of the players had submitted a rather long story to go with his photo. On a computer a scroll bar is obvious - but on the iPad, it was not.


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