Category Archives: Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Adding a “loading” image to (just about) any form on submit, with jQquery

By Ian | August 16, 2010

under the category of the simplest thing that will actual work, I wanted to have one of those nice animate swilling icons running after the user hit the submit button so they knew that something was really happening.
The core code to this is very simple, using jQuery, just have a hidden image tag [...]

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Building a Cascading Drop Down Selection List for Ruby on Rails with jQuery Ajax

By Ian | May 28, 2010

A frequent need in building web site application is to have users select one value and then, based on that value, select another value. Real world needs for related values might be : Select a Country and then State or Province; Select a Car Manufacture and then a Car Model. Generically it’s about [...]

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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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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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