I Love Social Bookmarking version 0.3 released

Posted 3 March 2008, by Aaron

I Love Social Bookmarking

If there is one thing that is more desperately needed than a new post on miLienzo.com, it is an update to the I Love Social Bookmarking plugin. Two birds. One stone!

Since its release ILSB has had a few minor niggles related to certain themes’ CSS and which sometimes caused display problems and browser discrepancies – usually involving Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The way I had written the code that draws the list and operates the hover-over function had good intentions at heart – for compliant browsers it was a pure CSS solution and for Internet Explorer there was a tiny bit of JavaScript doing the hover effect. Unfortunately, and without going in to too much detail as to why, the way I had written this code was problematic and causing these issues with a small number of users.

For this new release I have re-written the code that operates the hover-effect. It is now a completely JavaScript driven effect. This is a bit of a double-edged sword as whilst it will eradicate the problems users have previously experienced, it is of course not as pure as a CSS-driven hover effect and with this current release there will be accessibility issues if any of your blog readers use text readers or have JavaScript switched off.

In the end I decided I had to provide a plugin as solid as possible for the the mast majority of users. Rest assured that the JavaScript I’ve used is incredibly streamlined and efficient, and for a future release I will provide a JavaScript-free solution for those concerned with accessibility.

Head over to the ILSB page to download the latest release, and I’d love to hear your feedback on how you get on with it.

Note: If you are upgrading from a previous version of ILSB, your may have to refresh your browser to clear the old CSS from the cache as I’ve made a couple of changes to the style sheet.

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Tags:Accessibility, CSS, Internet Explorer, Plugins, Social Bookmarking, WordPress

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6 fantastic comments

May or may not be useful to anyone, but I’ve modified the JS so that it only expands the menu that you’re hovering over:

jQuery(this).find(“.ilsb-child”).show();
jQuery(this).find(“.ilsb-child”).hide();

Cheers Aaron – I will add this fix into the next build I put out. I will probably need to do a new build for WordPress 2.5 so will release something later this week.

Hello Aaron;

Still has problems with IE6 & IE7
Show/hide

You can check it out in my web:
http;//www.dedalos-01.net

cheers

Big problems indeed, I’ve disabeled the last version, (online is even worst for me in IE6-7). I was checking out in my localhost.
Online scramble all the layout

Hi Roy – I’ve emailed you with a few ideas as to what might be causing the issues. As far as I’m aware the plugin is pretty stable on IE now, but if you’ve been using the previous version there may be stylesheet issues. See my email for details and get back to me if it doesnt help.
Thanks

Ooops!, child box open suddenly, should open as sliding

I Love Social Bookmarking version 0.3 released

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