Friday, May 12th, 2006
Category: Firefox, IE
, The Ajax Experience
With key people present from Mozilla and the IE team present, today’s Ajax Experience panel is focused mostly on browser issues. A rare opportunity for Ajax developers to talk directly with the people who define our day-to-day constraints. As I write this, it’s thirty minutes after the panel finished and there’s still a decent crowd Read the rest…
Monday, February 20th, 2006
Category: Firefox, JavaScript
, Programming
, Python
Brendan Eich has posted a status update on some of the work going into the upcoming JavaScript 2, aka ECMAScript Edition 4 (ES4). One feature that should look familiar to Python hackers are generators and iterators, as seen in the following example taken from a console session: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: js> function count(n) { Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Category: Firefox, Testing
, Utility
Patrick Lightbody just posted about the release of Selenium IDE, the Firefox plugin which allows you to drive functional tests of your web application. This Firefox plugin is the best way to get started with web application testing. It is 100% functional by itself, or it can be used in combination with Selenium and any Read the rest...
Monday, January 9th, 2006
Category: Builds, Firefox
, Java
, JavaScript
, Testing
, Toolkit
J3Unit is a new OO testing framework for Javascript with optional integration with Jetty and Junit for automation into your test suite. It builds upon the work done with the Script.aculo.us test unit runner and JSUnit. Of course, you can grab the zip file and just get up and running in static mode. Or take Read the rest...
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Category: Firefox
I noticed that my JavaScript console started to spew out CSS errors in 1.5 land: Then I saw information about Console2 which gives you just JavaScript errors, and lets the CSS ones go by. Having access to CSS errors is great, but it would be nice to be able to toggle exactly what we want Read the rest...
Category: Browsers, Canvas
, Firefox
As soon as Firefox 1.5 comes out, people want to play with some of the shiny nobs. SVG: How Did The Moon Get Into Orbit? One of the early post-release examples of SVG support on Firefox 1.5 was this demo showing moon orbits. If you take a peak into the source you see the magic Read the rest...
Friday, November 4th, 2005
Category: Browsers, Editorial
, Firefox
Brendan Eich has posted about new roadmaps and how "we propose to develop the front end of Firefox 2 and the platform for Firefox 3 concurrently, with Firefox 2 releasing in less than a year." What's the plan in the draft for Gecko 1.9 The draft Gecko 1.9 roadmap is interesting. Graphics and layout capabilities: Read the rest...
Friday, September 16th, 2005
Category: Browsers, Canvas
, Firefox
With Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2, Firefox includes a new HTML element for programmable graphics. <canvas> is based on the WhatWG canvas specification, which itself is based on Apple's <canvas> implemented in Safari. It can be used for rendering graphs, UI elements, and othercustom graphics on the client. <canvas> creates a fixed size drawing surface that Read the rest...
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Bar Camp showed off Flock: We're introducing the world's most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web. Over the next few weeks, we'll be seeding invites to a few lucky folks. Sign up to find out when invites are available Flock - Social Browsing is Cool By Techcrunch Flock was originally called Read the rest...
Monday, August 29th, 2005
Vivek Jishtu has written a Firefox extension that adds Ajax support to Yahoo! Mail: Adds AJAX support to the current Yahoo! mail and makes it a little more friendly. You can preview your messages without leaving your inbox. It adds a small arrow next to your email list. Click on the arrow to preview the Read the rest...
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
Alex Russell has voiced in on what he would like to see out of Firefox 1.5: Here are a couple of simple-ish things that would make our lives immeasurably better: Local string caching from script: This is a strange name for a very very powerful capability: caching. Webdevs today need a coherent, simple, and workable Read the rest...
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Michael Moncur found the View Formatted Source Mozilla extension. He hit the nail on the head with respect to its usefulness. Having color-coded HTML is fine and all, but the interesting piece is that the source that is shown isn't just what was downloaded from the server, but represents the current work, post script: I Read the rest...
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
And while we're on the topic of SVG... By way of svg.org, an SVG enthusiast demonstrates how to get the (Windows only) Adobe SVG Viewer 6.0 "pre-alpha" (not a beta, as he claims) to work along-side Deer Park's native SVG support. The blog entry is unnecessarily critical of a *preview* release of Deer Park's unfinished Read the rest...
Monday, June 13th, 2005
In case you missed it, the Mozilla Foundation recently released Deer Park Alpha 1, a developer preview of Firefox 1.1. In addition to various miscellaneous fixes (my favorite being that scrollable divs now response to the mouse wheel), Deer Park includes the new SVG, canvas, and E4X technologies that we've mentioned before. Download it and Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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