JavaScript 1.6 was released in November 2005, and even though Internet Explorer 7 was released almost a year later in October 2006, it still uses the older JavaScript 1.5. I only discovered this fact recently when I started using Array.indexOf() in some lightbox code. It was all working fine in Firefox, but as soon as I started testing it in IE, it stopped!

New releases of the Avatar Selection module have been made - versions 5.x-2.7 and 6.x-1.5. This release includes a number of bug fixes and some new features. The main changes revolved around performance enhancements.

New features added include:

• #282832 - Ability to set default name for bulk uploaded avatars.
• Improved performance.

I recently ran into an issue with the Lightbox2 module which kept me puzzled for quite some time. The problem was that when trying to view a Flash video in a lightbox on Firefox 2 on a Mac, the picture would never appear, though I could hear the sound okay. However, everything worked perfectly in Firefox 3 on the Mac, and in both Firefox 2 and 3 on Windows and Ubuntu! Lightbox2 also worked fine when displaying other content types (e.g. images) on the Mac, it was just Flash videos that were affected.

I'm officially going to Drupalcon Szeged! Flights booked, accommodation sorted, bags packed (okay, not really!) and most importantly, fully registered. This is going to be my first Drupalcon and I must admit I'm totally excited about it! It'll be great to finally meet other Drupalers and to put faces with all the names.

I'm also busy reading up all the proposed sessions. Some of them should be very interesting, including webchick's testing sessions, Page serving and rendering (XHTML/XML/JSON, etc.) - now and Drupal 7, the Drupalchix BoF session and, of course, Dries State of Drupal speech.

New releases of the Avatar Selection module have been made - versions 5.x-2.6 and 6.x-1.4. This release includes a few bug fixes and new features, but the main change was a complete rewrite of the avatar selection pager. It is now AJAX based, which should improve performance for larger lists of avatars, but also degrades gracefully if Javascript is not enabled.

New features added include:

• #257726 - Ability to weight avatars and to give them a name.
• New AJAX based pager, which improves performance and degrades gracefully when Javascript is disabled.

New releases of the Lightbox2 module have been made - versions 5.x-2.8 and 6.x-1.8. There were quite a number of changes in these releases, including a whole bunch of new features including inline / modal content support, ability to change the lightbox colour, and much much more. A number of bugs were also fixed, including area tags not being fully supported and emfield image width and height settings not being followed.

New features added include:

• #141867 - Ability to open node page without sidebars in an iframe.

New releases of the FAQ module have been made - versions 5.x-2.11 and 6.x-1.7. There aren't many changes in these releases. It's mainly bug fixes. The only significant change is that now the layouts are separated out into their own include files and are only loaded as needed. This should improve performance.

New features added include:

• FAQ layouts separated out into include files, which should help improve performance.
• Updated German translations.

This weekend I went to my first ever Drupal event! It was a day long meetup organised by the Drupal Ireland group and was held in DERI, NUI Galway. It was great to be finally able to meet other "drupalites" and see what others in Ireland are up to.

[This post is now in the Drupal handbook where it will be kept up to date: http://drupal.org/node/266126]

There are various modules in Drupal which provide "lightbox" type functionality. These modules usually use JavaScript to overlay images on the current page when clicked upon, which has the advantage of being able to show users the large version of a thumbnail image while keeping them on the same page. However, there are a number of these modules available, each quite similar but some have more features, while others are more lightweight or have better browser support.

New releases of the Lightbox2 module have been made - versions 5.x-2.7 and 6.x-1.7. There were quite a number of changes in these releases, including some new features such as Embedded Media Field support for images and videos, improved Gallery 2 support and the ability to open CCK images and automatically handled images in an iframe. A number of bugs were also fixed, including imagecache 1 issues and navigation of grouped images in IE.

New features added include:

• Support for Embedded Media Field images.
• Support for Embedded Media Field videos.
• Improved support for Gallery 2 images.
• Ability to open cck images and automatically handled images in an iframe.
• Ability to configure the default width and height of the iframe.