jQuery’s Facebox and Google Maps

On my soon to be launched New Zealand Running Calendar, I have the location map of the running event on a Google Map. This map can be viewed either on a regular page or via an AJAX call in a jQuery Facebox popup window. However I had issues with the map displaying in the popup as shown in this post along with the solution.

jQuery Facebox dialog with greyed out background

Yesterday I posted how to grey out a web page which is useful when showing a Javascript dialog box and in this post show how to do the same when using the jQuery Facebox plugin. The Facebox plugin makes dialog boxes that look like the ones in Facebook.

Opening a new window with Javascript

On the odd occasion when I need to open a popup window with Javascript I always have to reach for my O'Reilly Javascript book, look in the index and find the appropriate page because I never can remember what the parameters are. So this post gives me an easy reference place for how to open a window with Javascript.