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IE 6 Death Watch gets a Funeral Service and at least a few more Nails in it’s coffin

By Ian | February 23, 2010

Part 2.
Six Months ago I declared One Year to Go on the IE 6 Deathwatch
In the beginning of this year it was disclosed that Google (as well as and 20+ other companies) had been the victim of Chinese cyber attack, attackers called the operation “Aurora” . Microsoft had admitted that Explorer was used [...]

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different behavior for Prototype JavaScript childElements() in FF and IE

By Ian | February 19, 2010

Or now to lose the rest of one’s limited hair …. I’ve come across a “doesn’t work as expect” issue while working in Prototype 1.6.0.2 JavaScript framework (”Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications” for sure!)
1$(’someIdName’).parentNode.childElements()
works fine in FireFox (v3) but not in Internet Explorer ( v6), in particular it seems [...]

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Using GreaseMonkey’s persistent data functions as a aged Cache, revised.

By Ian | December 15, 2009

In eating my own dog food I have revised, corrected, improved and fixed the code I posted last week. The biggest changes are related to ensuring that all that cached data does not just accumulate and never gets cleared away.
Values set using the “GM_setValue” function are saved in the Firefox preferences back end and [...]

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Use GreaseMonkey’s persistent data functions as a aged Cache.

By Ian | December 9, 2009

GreaseMonkey (Don’t know that GreaseMonkey is the greatest thing since slice bread? See Greasemonkey) has two persistent data function’s, GM_setValue and GM_getValue, which let you set and get values. See Mark Pilgrams excellent Dive Into Greasemonkey : Storing and retrieving persistent data for more details. (even better, go to GreaseSpot and it’s api [...]

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JavaScript Function to get the Intersect of 2 Arrays

By Ian | December 1, 2009

In mathematics, the intersection (denoted as ∩) of two sets A and B is the set that contains all elements of A that also belong to B.
I needed the javascript array equivalent, so that given an array A = ["a","b","c", "d"] and B = ["b", "d", "e"], getIntersect(A, B) = ["b", "d"]
123456789101112function getIntersect(arr1, arr2) [...]

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FireFox extensions that make a web developers life easier.

By Ian | July 16, 2009

This is why FireFox rocks! (the only downside is one can never stop at one) Starting with the Basic must have extensions. These are the first ones for me to install on new machines, and evangelize to clients.

Firebug: a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, [...]

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One Year to Go on the IE 6 Deathwatch.

By Ian | July 14, 2009

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was released on August 27, 2001,

It’s reach end Life: IE 6 is being end life’d (no longer supported or service patched) on 13 July 2010 or approximately 24 months after the last service pack which was Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 in June 2008, and generally [...]

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10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To

By Ian | June 29, 2009

via smashingmagazine we have 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To, and they are

Lazy Registration;
Progressive Disclosure;
Forgiving Format;
Clear Primary Actions;
Breadcrumbs;
Account Registration;
Required Field Marker;
Steps Left;
Subscription plans;
Hover Controls;

Every web designer and [...]

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Set xsd style dates with zulu time zone in java

By Ian | June 18, 2009

I need to set some XML Schema Date/Time Datatypes (also called xsd date) values for Created (being now) and Expired (one month from now) so that the result might look something like a dateTime in UTC (also known as GMT, but also being a 24 hour clock format) time by adding a “Z” (for Zulu?) [...]

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