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FxKeyboard: A Firefox keyboard for touchscreens

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by Marko Zabreznik

Ok, lets say you have a terminal that is serving the general public with a touchscreen interface. That particular system might be either on windows, linux or mac (or anything else you might have Firefox running on) and will most probably be run in full screen.

Finding a virtual keyboard that works good on any of those is a hard thing to find. I failed at finding it.So, how about a keyboard that works inside Firefox as a plugin ? Thats exactly what I imagined when i started on this project.

Here is a working plugin in my language and set for my specific needs.
FxKeyboard 1.1 – 3kb
fxkeyboard 1.1 English – Due to demand, a slightly more English version ( same layout as with the last one but English buttons, if someone makes a mockup for a real usable English layout, i will be glad to add it.)

GNU/GPL as usual, but i would like it if you ask for my permission before you use it in public accessible areas. If you are doing a kiosk system, you might also be interested in keeping firefox on the homepage using FxGrounded.

If you need customization, have a idea worth sharing or anything else, write me a email or comment this post.

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Magento Category Style

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 by Marko Zabreznik

Its frequent that a webpage needs styles specific to categories, like one background for Store, another for Company info etc… But Magento fails in that area unless you want to make specific designs for each section you are out of luck.

CSS might be the ansver trough. The only thing missing is a class that each section has.
addBodyClass(‘category-’.Mage::getBlockSingleton(‘catalog/navigation’)
->getCurrentCategory()
->getParentCategory()
->getUrlKey()
);
?>
This piece of code adds the urlkey of the current categories parent category inside body’s class tag. And the class added is the same that is present on the parent page of the category. How cool is that :D

For pages with multiple level childs, it is also possible to loop that untill you get to the top parent.

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FxGrounded: Keep Firefox Home

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 by Marko Zabreznik

Yet another plugin I despretely needed so I built myself.

Quite simple this one:
It locks the browser on the homepage + derivates (any page that has the url containing the homepage url). For example, if i had my homepage set to http://somepage.com I would be able to access http://somepage.com/some/dir/something.html. At this moment, subdomains are not supported.

If there are external links, this plugin blocks them, unless the links are displayed in a frame. If  by some chance anyone might be able to get trough this, the page is redirected to the homepage when the top document is somewhere not in scope of the homepage.

Ideas, comments are always wecome.
fxgrouded 2kb – MD5: 501e943b8f174874db077de24c2b1ba9
GPLv3
Marko Zabreznik

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Update on Joomlaaa.com

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 by Marko Zabreznik

Thanks to Phil, who commented my blog from a while ago, I finally caught up on this strange mirror website. It indeed is a spoof as they wanted 10$ for extension and email removal.

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=262&t=357899

Here you can read it yourself.

The site is offline atm and I hope it stays that way for good.
Sites like that show up and die more frequently that one might think. That is why I hope the JED will reconcider its intentions on non-GPL extensions..  Or we might face another JED mirror that will pull it off.

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