Maurice Snip

Since I’m enjoying my Christmas holidays, I thought I’d do a couple of things I should have done ages ago. One of them is upgrading WordPress. When I read about the new admin interface in WordPress 2.7, I couldn’t resist to upgrade right away. I have to say, WordPress did a really nice job on the new interface. It’s so much better than the old version. If you’re still running an older version, I recommend to upgrade to WordPress 2.7, it only takes a few minutes. Be sure to read the Upgrading WordPress and WordPress Backups guides at the WordPress codex pages.

As you might have noticed, I also installed a new WordPress theme. This time by the guys of LetsEat.at, thanks!

In a recent project I needed a way to manually fire an event that works in all major browsers on the market today. Since Internet Explorer and Firefox, Safari use a different event model, feature detection is needed. Where the document.createEvent block executes the code for Firefox, Safari, etc, the document.createEventObject executes the code for Internet Explorer. The function:

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/**
 * Manually fires the given event
 * 
 * @param {Mixed} el The element object or element ID that has to fire the event
 * @param {String} set The event set used, eg. HTMLEvents or MouseEvents
 * @param {String} type The event type to fire, eg. change or click
 */
function fireEventXB(el, set, type) {
	if(typeof el == 'string') {
		el = document.getElementById(el);
	}
	if(document.createEvent) {
		var evObj = document.createEvent(set);
		evObj.initEvent(type, true, false);
		el.dispatchEvent(evObj);
	}
	else if(document.createEventObject) {
		el.fireEvent('on' + type);
	}
}