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Modifying Form Elements in CKEditor

I apologize in advance for the generality of the question. There is a surprising lack of documentation or discussion about this. If someone can point me to some source on this topic it would be much appreciated.
I'm trying to create a CMS page where users can edit custom forms. I'm using CKEditor in a pretty simple HTML/JavaScript setup like the demo on their website http://ckeditor.com/demo#full
My problem is this - Form elements can be resized (and drag-and-dropped) in IE but not in Chrome or FireFox.
If anyone has any information on editing form elements in CKEditor please let me know about it.
Thanks

It's not related to CKEditor but to contenteditable in general, which, quite frankly, is not consistent in terms of implementation because it lacks standarisation. There's nothing you can do about it unless you implement that feature from scratch, which is not a good idea really, especially because I'm not quite sure that default behavior can be disabled.

The form elements resizing feature may be supported by the browser (e.g. IE) not by javascript code. So it's hard to make the feature available in Chrome or FireFox.

jquery UI simple context menu, callable from button

I'm looking for some combination of a plugin or clever programming technique that will allow me to have a context-style menu in jQuery but rather than actually triggering it from a right-click, I'd like to be able to have it triggered from a button that can potentially move to different locations on my window. I can handle the part of the button itself moving without much trouble. My requirements are:
It should be compatible with jQuery UI 1.8 and my custom themeroller-generated theme
It needs to be relocatable
I either need to have it execute a callback when an element is selected, or have it honor the href on any a tags that make up the menu elements
I looked at Selectmenu and it's close, but it seems to want to always show the currently selected item, which is not quite what I want. Also I had to hack around it in an ugly way to make it relocate properly.
This blog post is also pretty close but the jsEvent.clientX and jsEvent.clientY don't put the dialog in the right place and I'm a little stuck as to what to do about that. Also I don't really want the options to be buttons. The menu-ish plugins have them looking right.
This plugin here is pretty much exactly what I want (I'd have to add the bit about the button, but it doesn't look too hard). But that requires jQuery UI 1.9.
Any thoughts? It may be that this is just such a rare requirement that I have to roll my own, but somehow that seems surprising and I feel like I might be missing something.

I like this plugin. It seems that is more compatible than jQueryUI-contextmenu.
Is a fork of jQueryUI-contextmenu actually
jQuery-contextMenu
I liked it because it has more examples, and it says that only use one footprint in memory so it consume less resources in comparison to others. Works with +jquery 1.6 and don't necessarily need html markup,

The menu plugin you mentioned last seems to work fine with jQuery UI 1.8.x, but not jQuery UI 1.7.x.
jQ-UI 1.8.7: http://jsfiddle.net/william/xxGUW/
jQ-UI 1.8.9: http://jsfiddle.net/william/xxGUW/1/
jQ-UI 1.8.14: http://jsfiddle.net/william/xxGUW/2/
jQ-UI 1.7.2 (broken): http://jsfiddle.net/william/xxGUW/3/

What is the code behind this javascript?

I'm trying to find out how they were able to create this site. http://www.cpeople.ru, i am trying to build my portfolio to look something like it. Particularly, I want the slider effect of the menu. Please help me out. Thanks. :)

Look at the source code, it's quite open. They're using jQuery with the jCarousel and Mousewheel plugins. On top they have two custom scripts called f.js and portfolio.js, which are plainly readable as is.

Look into free JavaScript frameworks, particularly jQuery UI. jQuery can do plenty of special effects, and it's quite easy to use.
If you look at the source of the linked webpage, you can see it uses jQuery and two jQuery plugins, jCarousel and mousewheel.
Be sure not to copy swathes of code from existing websites (unless it is expressly permitted, as is the case with jQuery), as that would be copyright infringement.

Try chrome sniffer if you use google chrome.

Can javascript capture image download times in the client?

With javascript event timers, you can relatively easily determine how long it too for the page to render in the browser, especially when using tools like Jiffy. However, is it possible to capture more granular events such as individual image/object download times using javascript in the page? I am fairly sure this is not possible, but wanted to confirm with the javascript guru's of SO.
Thank you in advance.

Sadly, unless you load the images using the javascript image object manually instead of in the markup, I don't believe this is possible. that's why you usually see this functionality in things like firefox plugins

You could look at the Net tab in Firebug. I don't know if it can give you same information via Firebug Lite in other browsers or not.

If what you want to time can be put into an event that has a callback, you can check the time before and after. So anything you do with Ajax you can time. What exactly are you trying to time? Can you be more specific?

I'm not totally familiar with this jQuery plugin, but it may be of help to you:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/timers

PopupWindow in jQuery

I am in need of a popupwindow with the option of a radio button. I have tested with Impromtu. Is any easy made Popupwindow plugin available?
My plugin should work in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Google Chrome. What would some sample code be?

jqModal is great and easy-to-use for building Modal Popups and the like.
If you want a tutorial on how to build one yourself without jQuery, check out this tutorial.

Check out Thickbox! You can use a div or so on your page as content (see inline content demo).

Here's a list of lightbox like plugins depending on your need:
http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/006978.php

If you're not absolutely bent on using jQuery, there is another library available that uses the Prototype library that is rather handy. The popup windows are very easy to implement, and the modal dialog boxes are even easier.
On a side note, I have used thickbox before and was rather impressed, but the URL parsing structure that it uses were kind of limiting me for what I needed to do (I was using a ComponentArt object that didn't use anchors).
Anyway, definitely check out this tool. It's probably more than you need, but who knows maybe you'll get inspired to find other uses for it. It's a pretty fun tool:
http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/documentation.html

FaceBox is another option to check out.