I was asked recently whether the Popupper plugin for Wordpress works when mousing over an image. I tried it to see, if I had managed to write the code good enough for it to “just work” out of the box. Sadly no, the highlighted image disappeared when I tried it out. That’s a bug for [...]

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Ugh, the popupper plugin that I wrote already got bug reports from IE7 users. I work on my laptop and tested it on Safari, Camino, and Firefox. Unfortunately, I never checked out IE7. It turns out that some HTML/Javascript comments that work on Safari/Camino/Firefox don’t work on IE7.
My plugin was creating HTML that looked like:

<script type=’text/javascript’>//<!–
 …
//–!></script>

… this does not work [...]

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I’ve just finished writing a new plugin for Wordpress. It allows you create popups, like the ones highlighted in blue in the last sentence. Hopefully, some bloggers out there pick it up and try it out. You can download it from the official wordpress.org page here.

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