Javascript

The lack of a file system on the iPad and other iOS based devices can sometimes be frustrating. While applications like Dropbox make accessing your existing files trivial, getting new files onto your device directly from the web is not as easy. If you come across a PDF or other file that you’d like to open in a local application, you may be out of luck.

I’ve recently been trying out the MarsEdit blog editor. One issue I’ve run into is that SyntaxHighlighter doesn’t work with the preview feature because the page in the preview window only gets loaded once. Fortunately there is a workaround. A typical SyntaxHighlighter configuration will look similar to the code fragment below.