March 2010
Using jQuery to create an overflow menu as seen in Google Wave
One of the features UI that Google wave uses is what I call the "overflow" menu. If you have a wave account you may have noticed that depending on your browser window size not all of the menu options are shown. The hidden options tucked away nicely in a drop down menu. On resizing your browser widow, options are added or removed from the menu. I thought that was pretty slick and thought it would be pretty easy to recreate the functionality using jQuery. So enough with the story on to the code.
Using Regular Expressions to Test Variable values
When creating a function in javascript its a good idea to check object the object type(s) of the arguments pasted to function. Lots of times you end up with code looking like this to do this