I just uploaded the largest chapter, 9, and had hoped to get 10 loaded tonight, but my mind isn’t working well. Aha, I though, write in the weblog instead. This has been such a difficult book in more ways than one. The examples were huge and now, during editing, I have to find some way […]
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writings about JavaScript/ECMAScript and Node
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Progressive Enhancement
The book title, Adding Ajax, should be synonymous with the concept of progressive enhancement in Ajax development, and I’ve gone through the earlier chapters and adjusted accordingly. Progressive enhancement (or should that be Progressive Enhancement?) is the philosophy that you create web pages that don’t require any scripting at all, first; then add scripting effects in […]
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To JSON or not to JSON
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dare Obasanjo may be out of some Ajax developers spheres….actually *I’m probably out of most Ajax developers spheres…but just in case you haven’t seen his recent JSON/XML posts, I would highly recommend them: The GMail Security Flaw and Canary Values, which provides some sound advice for those happily exposing all […]
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Learning JavaScript errata
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If wishes were horses, book authors would have a herd. All too often you see the ‘oops’ and such only after the book is in print. In my case, I’ve worked with JavaScript for so long (since the very beginning) I brought along a couple of bad habits that made […]
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New Year
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a note at Mad Techie Woman about an error in the Learning JavaScript book I could kick myself for. It has to do with quirks mode, and the fact that browsers interpret an XHTML document as HTML when served with an .htm extension, and the fact that […]