Sunday, October 24th, 2004
One of the more fun things in DHTML is dynamic manipulation of page content. An interesting question that recently came up at work was hiding and displaying a single table row. The solution I came up with is pretty simply - set the CSS STYLE tag of the table row ...
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Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Another rather annoying thing I just ran across is the difference in the implementation of the "typeof" operator in Javascript operating on functions. If you create a function in the parent window, assign it to a property of the parent window, and then pass it to the child window, IE ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2004
One of the more boring tasks in DHTML is validation of form data and specifically of INPUT and SELECT boxes. Since both have a ".value" property, we can save time and use the same code for checking both:
if(selectBox.value == null || selectBox.value.length == 0)
{ alert('Nothing selected in select box!'); }
else ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
An interesting NewsForge article makes a very good point about web standards and browser wars:
In my 2002 book, The Online Rules of Successful Companies, I said it was stupid to design Web sites that would work correctly only with the most popular Web browser. Yes, I told readers, over 90% ...
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