10 More Browser Tweaks with jQuery

We’ve been sharing tons of Browser Tweak plugins and we know that you haven’t had enough yet because you just love fixing browser errors! ;) In this post, we will share another set. Check out this 10 Browser Tweaks with jQuery that you may find useful.

1. Wresize – IE Resize event Fix Plugin

jQuery plugin for fixing the IE window resize bug. In IE the window resize event is fired multiple times per actual resize: it is a well-known issue for IE6 and IE7, but they misbehave along different patterns. Actually it seems that IE6 is worse than IE7.

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2. jQuery ifixpng

This plugin designed to fix that problem by applying appropriate filters to user specified elements, while keeping all element tags intact.

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3. jQuery pngFix

This plugin will fix the missing PNG-Transparency in Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 & 6.

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4. Background Iframe

The bgiframe plugin is chainable and applies the iframe hack to get around zIndex issues in IE6. It will only apply itself in IE6 and adds a class to the iframe called ‘bgiframe’. The iframe is appended as the first child of the matched element(s) with a tabIndex and zIndex of -1.

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5. QinIE – for proper display of Q tags in IE

The purpose of Q tags (defined in HTML 4.0 and W3C DOM Level 1) is to represent quotations more semantically, accessibly, and typographically-correct. Like many things, they haven’t caught on because IE didn’t support them.

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6. jQuery Accessibility Plugin

To use jQuery Accessibility Plugin – first you must have jQuery and the jQuery Cookie Plugin. This plugin has been tested with version 1.1.3 on FireFox2 on Ubuntu 7.04.

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7. jQuery MouseWheel Plugin

There are two ways you can use the mousewheel event. You can use the mousewheel and unmousewheel helpers or just use the typical bind and unbind syntax.

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