I’ve just returned from two days at the MoodleMoot 2006 held at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. In spite of the combination of sweltering heat and a lack of air conditioning (as well as having to stay in Milton Keynes ;-)) it turned out to be a terrific event.
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In the past I’ve mentioned my confusion about the differing behaviour of certain aspects of the oh-so-trendy XMLHttpRequest object, but now I have access to a couple of non-windows browsers for testing I thought I’d take a look to see how they handle it. Perhaps unsurprisingly they are also subtly different again from IE, Firefox and Opera. Is this what happens when browser makers have to reverse engineer someone else’s feature instead of working with documented standards?
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Today I set out to answer the oh-so exciting question “What is the fastest way to create a loop in
JavaScript?” After some tedious exhaustive, cross browser testing
these are my results…
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With the recent changes to how Internet Explorer handles active content, such as Flash, there has been a lot of attention paid to various JavaScript solutions that allow you to continue to seamlessly embed this content into pages. Probably the most popular of which being the pretty neat FlashObject, uh, sorry thanks to Adobe that’s now SWFObject — well, what else would you expect from the people behind the guidelines on the Proper use of the Photoshop trademark. Neat as SWFObject is, one problem with scripts such as this is that they never seem to work in pages served using application/xhtml+xml. I needed a script that did, so here it is.
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Since I last posted about it my CSS Inspector User JavaScript/Greasemonkey script has undergone a few little tweaks and changes.
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While working on a theme for Moodle I thought it would be helpful to have a tool that allowed me to easily view details of an element in the document. To be able to see it’s ancestors, with any classes and id’s. Basically all the information need to write a CSS selector for that element. So I wrote a user JavaScript to do just that.
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After writing a seriously over-complicated JavaScript class to handle innerHTML style
behaviour in XHTML documents served with the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. I just found out
what I was doing wrong that was preventing all the simpler things I tried working. It’s all about namespaces.
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After trying to customise a web application using CSS and JavaScript I’m starting to wish browsers had never allowed web developers to get away with writing tag soup. Certainly if the developers of the pages I was trying to modify had been faced with a YSoD each time they produced malformed markup my job would’ve been made a lot easier ;-)
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While experimenting using XMLHttpRequest I noticed a few slightly strange differences between the
different browsers I was testing. These differences related to the value of the “this” keyword in the
onreadystatechange event handler.
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I got round to adding a stylesheet that doesn’t fail completely in Internet Explorer. While I was at it I also fixed up the fancy (pointless) Find as you type functionality on my search box so that now should work in IE too. Ooh AJAX how very modern.
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