Place transparent DIV on top of Google Earth - google-earth

Is there a way to place a transparent-background DIV (a curved image forming the beginning and ending of a menu) on top of Google Earth.
Thanks

I think you are looking for a IFRAME shim solution.
Here is a link to very similar question: How can I place a html div over the Google Earth plugin? Involves wmode, I imagine

I use iframe divs on my website to create a menu - you can see my site here:
http://www.3dwhistler.com/
or for a simple example check out
http://earth-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/customcontrols/index.html
As for making it transparent, by using CSS, you can for Mac but not for Windows based browser. It looks really cool on the Mac, but instead of using different CSS per browser I am sticking to a 'common' look for now.

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Mobile-Chrome-App not able to scroll

I also have this issue. I am using Ubuntu and just completed the Hello world tutorial. I wrote some more text and I am unable to scroll. I can see where the words keep going but nothing I have tried lets it scroll. I have not made any HTML/CSS edits. I have only added more text to the <p> tag.
There is some default CSS applied for chrome packaged apps. Putting the following in your CSS should re-enable scrolling:
html {
overflow-y:scroll;
}
Someone is putting together a cool guide which might have some more tips. See https://gist.github.com/maicki/7622137#scrolling
Chrome apps have a default stylesheet applied to them, to help the web "page" be more of an "app" by default.
For Chrome Apps on Mobile, we also include this (well, a nearly identical) default stylesheet.
So that is the reason for that behavior. Scrolling is absolutely useful in very many contexts, and is absolutely supported in any DOM element by adding overflow-y: auto;.
It was simply deemed to be the wrong default for packaged apps which live inside a dedicated window of set bounds and where we encourage not having full page content overflow (very much the opposite of the web). Most apps usually surround a main scrolling element with fixed navigational elements (but not always).
FYI, there is also another open issue for Chrome Apps on Mobile to replicate yet more of the Chrome for Desktop default styles.

Facebook hide content from non-fans in a unique way

I need to build a tab looking like this one:
https://www.facebook.com/auto.co.il/app_134594493332806
I know how to add an image and a comment box and i know of several "plain" ways to hide the content from non-fans, but i came across the above tab and i really like the way it shows thee content yet you cant engage it until you press the like button.
Any help please?
Thanks in advance.
Oren
Your link didn't work for me, but you can place a absolutely positioned div with a high z-index above the rest of your content to prevent the user from clicking on anything.
Update: Now that the link has been updated I see that they are doing exactly what I described above. In chrome if you right-click the background and select "inspect element" you will see the following computed style for the div:
rgba(0,0,0,0.796);
display:block;
height:1612px;
width:810px;
The content is blacked out simply with a div with a black background and some opacity. Just for fun, you can overcome their like gate (without liking) via chrome's JS console by selecting the iframe context and then entering the following:
$('.like_float_c').detach();
... now call youself a 'hacker' ;)

Allowing a user to resize a GWT TextArea using "gripper bars"

I am currently trying to replicate the functionality of the Sticky application (fourth example under "samples") in my GWT application, specifically NoteView (see the class NoteView in SurfaceView.java in my personal repo or download Google App Engine's SDK, where you'll find it in appengine-java-sdk-1.5.1/demos/sticky).
However, as hard as I try, I just cannot find the place where Google put in the gripper bars on the bottom right hand corner of every note, and where their code allowed the user to resize the note. grepping for "resize" and "resizable" in their sticky dir was not fruitful, and the CSS "resize" functionality was not used either. Also, GWT Textareas are not automatically resizable in the way that these notes in GWT are, and I don't know how to enable this or set it up.
I'm sorry but it really just is a textarea, and your browser does the rest (most browsers make textareas resizable nowadays).
Using Firebug or a similar developer tool, can you tell which differences are there between the Sticky sample and what your code does?
I figured it out -- it was old crud css left over from a gxt implementation. As soon as I removed the css file, the textarea automatically had gripper bars.

How can i make a bottom toolbar with jqTouch for my webpage

I'm trying to make a iPad like toobar at the bottom of my webpage, using the free jqTouch framework. Here's an example I was trying to copy off (first random iphone image i googled for).
Now, a previous StackOverflow question sorta answers it .. but i'm not sure how to extended that answer to include
4 or so sections (eg. friends, person logged in (if they are), etc.)..
Keep that toolbar at the bottom, no matter what. The middle content is scrollable. but the header and this footer should always be visible.
Can this be done?
Actually your link won't help you at all because position:fixed isn't supported in Mobile Safari and brokenly supported in Android. You are going to need a plugin like iscroll, and some fixed positioning, it a bunch of work to get it all working together. However fear not, if you are not interested in going through the pain of developing this yourself, people have done the work for you. See the DataZombies fork of jqTouch, and you can see that in the demo he has a working bottom toolbar (with Badges even!)
To include a tab bar in jQTouch, you'll want to download a later version of jQT than r109, the default package from their homepage. Go to its GitHub to grab a later version of source.
Then, take a look at this post:
Fixed header in Jqtouch, and this demo: http://demo.lvengine.net/mobileuplink.
i'm working on my version, to add a fixed tabbar on jQtouch
http://www.itabbar.com
it's working with jQtouch, iScroll and the iTabbar
this work with the latest jQtouch version
Here a online demo (only Safari and Chrome for desktop browser)

Styling <select> tag for iPhone

When a <select> tag is used in a HTML page, is there a way to style the text size in
the scroll wheel that shows on the iPhone?
There is this alternative.
http://cubiq.org/spinning-wheel-on-webkit-for-iphone-ipod-touch
It uses javascript to put the elements on the page.. I used it for a web/ iphone app and it worked really well. There would be custom styling if you wanted to change the default text sizes and you could also load in custom images..
I don't believe you can style the wheel that shows up on the iPhone directly. In fact, even modifying it in browsers has weird support. For example, http://jsbin.com/obake3 doesn't work at all in Chrome, only modifies the actual drop down in Safari and stretches the graphic in a very ugly way in Firefox.
We investigated and couldn't find any reliable way of altering the display so we looked into different libraries. We're having good luck with the Mobiscroll library for jQuery. It is a more up to date project than the cubiq project referred to in other responses.
The control is themable. You can easily change the appearance of if in CSS. It also comes with pre-defined, nice looking color schemes.
We chose it because it works across devices allowing for a more consistent look & feel.
Taken from Sitepoint Ref
The select renders slightly differently depending on the browser and operating system in use, and is well known as a troublesome HTML element to style with CSS (because the display is inherited from the operating system, rather than provided by the browser)