Mats Lindh

Strange problem occurred today, one of the very rare occasions were the behaviour of jQuery differed between Internet Explorer and Firefox. I’ve been trying to create a minimal example that replicates the behaviour, but have failed so far.

The problem was that in IE a click event triggered several times, which led an element to be expanded and then contracted again. This did not happen in Firefox. I found out that the problem was that I had placed my jQuery segment further inside the loop than I meant to, leading to code being duplicated four or five times through the page. After removing the duplicated function names and binds to .click(), everything worked as it should.

If you get several events triggered in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox, check that you’re not accidentally binding the same function several times (.. while creating a minimized example that does this, I got the expected behaviour in both browsers, so I’m not completely sure of the reason). It might be worth a try as a fix, tho.

Just found out about whoisi.com through John Resig, and it’s quite a nifty little app. It aggregates several feeds in the context of an individual. The application does not require any login, and builds on the collection of all resources people are able to gather for one particular individual. I’ve collected the available feeds for myself over at my whoisi.com page, so that you can actually follow my flickr page, my twitter and my blog from one location. If you have any other resources where I’m contributing (maybe my youtube-feed?), feel free to add them.

I also suggest playing with the “random person” feature, I’ve had quite a bit of fun with that one today.

Number one feature: I don’t have to log in at Whoisi. Amazing. I just get a personalized link that I can email to myself for storage or simply bookmark it in my browser (or private on a bookmark site). No hassle. No email. No person information. Instant win.

You can read more about the technical implementation over at Christopher Blizzard’s blog.