Web Info & Tutorials

August 17th, 2007

FIXING GC ISSUES ON IE 6: NEW IE DOWNLOAD

The issues with garbage collection in IE 6 are well known. IE 7 has fixed the bulk of them, but what about IE 6 users?

It turns out that Microsoft has downloads for the various Windows operating systems, so if you could get your users to install one of these puppies they would be a lot happier running your rich Ajax application.

I really hope that Microsoft makes these critical updates so they actually get pushed to end users, else it doesn’t even matter than someone put in the hard work to make the fix.

Download the install for:

August 17th, 2007

EMPIRES: AJAX AXIS AND ALLIES

Bryan Brunton has created Empires, a game of expansion and conflict set in an alternate history prior to World War II. You and your opponents are leaders of the most powerful nations in the world. Empires was based upon the board games Attack! and Axis and Allies.

Dojo, DWR, and JavaServer Faces are the weapons of choice.

Ajax Risk

August 17th, 2007

JAVASCRIPT MODEL OBJECTS

Denny Ferrassoli has been thinking about data-binding as it related to JavaScript and HTML, and came up with JavaScript Model Objects.

His example was a simple table row repeater which looks like:

JAVASCRIPT:
  1.  
  2. // Data
  3. var myTestObj =
  4. {
  5.             "rows":
  6.                         [{"id":1, "title":"Test one", "imagesrc":"images/ajax.gif", "isTest":true},
  7.                         {"id":2, "title":"Test two", "imagesrc":"images/playmini.gif", "isTest":true},
  8.                         {"id":3, "title":"Test three", "imagesrc":"images/playmini.gif", "isTest":true}]
  9. }
  10.  

And the HTML template:

HTML:
  1.  
  2.             <tr id="JMO1">
  3.                         <td style="border: solid 1px black">!id!</td>
  4.                         <td style="border: solid 1px black">!title!</td>
  5.                         <td style="border: solid 1px black"><img src="!imagesrc!" /></td>
  6.                         <td style="border: solid 1px black">!isTest!</td>
  7.             </tr>
  8. </table>
  9.  
August 17th, 2007

WEB FORMS 2.0: CROSS BROWSER IMPLEMENTATION

Weston Ruter has created Web Forms 2, a cross-browser feat of the WHATWG Web Forms 2.0 specification. This description is currently a grown employed plan and has been adoptive by the W3C HTML Working Group to help as a endeavor saucer for the incoming edition of HTML. This feat module study the HTML 5 description that evolves from the W3C process.

So farther it features:

  • Extensions to modify curb elements
  • The continuation help for continuation modify controls
  • The forms circumstance model: Form validation
  • Fetching accumulation from outside resources (with the accumulation attribute)

Weston has a test suite to endeavor with.