JIM Control Usage Manual : Table Of Contents
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About
View Example
Adding The JIM Control To A Web Site
Stylesheet Classes Used
Using The Mouse Popup Menu
Define Inline Window Attributes and Bounding
Creating A Predefined Inline Window
Re-Populating A Predefined Inline Window (images, text/html, iframes)
Controlling an Inline Window (default size, maximize, close)
Creating Dynamically Defined Inline Windows (iframes)
Changing The Header Bar Of Inline Windows
Using XML The Easy Way
Reading And Using Stylesheet Data, Even If It Is External
Using Cookies And Detecting Web Browser Type
Miscellaneous - Add Favorite, Set Homepage, Send To Friend, Get URL
Advanced Users -> Daisy-Chain Functions
End User License Agreement
Future Enhancements / Releases
About
The JIM Control was designed to be simple to deploy and use on a web site. The JIM Control was created to help web site owners with content delivery to users using an intuitive method (inline windows) that can reduce user confusion and help simplify navigation and maintenance costs associated with a web site.
The JIM Control eliminates the underlying complexities of advanced scripting and support for different web browsers, by taking care of those issues in the background and providing the web site owner with a set of easy to use functions. For example, the web site owner can create an inline window by using a function instead of writing and testing the code to support multiple web browsers and all of the dynamics involved with an inline window.
Additionally, the JIM Control allows the web site owner to easily integrate and manipulate external XML data dynamically. Again, the web site owner only needs to know how to use the functions in the JIM Control to take advantage of using XML data files on a web site and easily manipulate such data.
NEW! Another great feature of the JIM Control is the direct ability to allow the web site owner to read CSS classes and attributes easily...even if those classes are in externally linked stylesheets. For example, the web site owner can use a function of the JIM Control by specifying the class name of a CSS class (such as .custom) and the attribute (such as width) and the JIM Control will return the value, even if the CSS class is in an external stylesheet.