Category Archives: Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

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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CCS & Ajax Links for March 24th

By Ian | March 26, 2008

Divs instead of tables – to paraphrase : “Use the div, Luke.”
or, if you do have a list of some kind, then maybe you should be using <ol>/<ul> and <li>’s rather than all the div’s? see A CSS layout that does not rely on DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK! for more
ModalBox a (Web 2.0-style) [...]

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Web Dev Links for week of July 27th

By Ian | July 29, 2007

App Preformance;easier SQL; JavaScript number formatting/data and time; more AJAX samples; Prototype

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Code Links for the week of July 11 07

By Ian | July 11, 2007

jquery and Prototype/scriptaculous toolkits & dealing with MS Internet Exploder heck.

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Links for June 24th

By Ian | June 24, 2007

questions every programmer should ask THEM a job interview; dhtml Accordion Box’s gone wild, Pedestrian Sundays in Toronto’s Kensington Market in pictures

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Secure Ajax mashups by Brent Ashley

By Ian | April 5, 2007

Shaping the future of secure Ajax mashups and how to improve the browser for hybrid Web applications.

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Is 2005 the “Year of JavaScript”?

By Ian | July 26, 2005

I asked this below , but it’s really a big enough point to ask on it’s own.
First AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) made it possible to build much more dynamic web application. , then GreaseMonkey made it possible to do custom re-writing on web sites (and prototyping concepts / extensions), now Konfabulator / Yahoo! Widgets [...]

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Ajax, Ajax Everywhere

By Ian | May 12, 2005

How Ajax changes everything from Powazek:
“Stop thinking about the web in terms of pages that go from a server to a browser, and instead think of pages as collections of chunks that can each go to and from a server as needed. In many ways, it reminds me of the revolutionarily simple lesson from [...]

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The New Web UI and Blogger Tags

By Ian | December 11, 2004

Charles Miller aka The Fishbowl comments on a brief Joel Spolsky remark about Google’s Suggest : the XmlHttpRequest technique, as displayed in Gmail, and Google Suggest, represents a new level in Rich Web UI’s.
Give that I’ve recent linked to DWR (Direct Web Remoting) and (more important) On GMail and DHTML architecture again this [...]

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