Javascript
Remote Scripting (AJAX) framework
Spare time to spend on interesting projects is not plentiful nowadays. Even so I have managed to put quite a few hours into a small web application framework. My goal is to make it easier to develop web applications that heavily depend on client server communication. I really want to get rid of the painfully [...]
Remote scripting with SRSS
I have ever since I wrote my old article on remote scripting using the script tag been intrigued by the possibilities of “behind the scenes” communication. Then Harry Fuecks started writing about XMLHttpRequest and how to connect it with PHP in a seamless manner resulting in JPSpan. The result works much like CORBA (or like CORBA was [...]
Internet Explorer eating memory?
A couple of days back I received an email from Vitaly Melnikov. He pointed out that when using my technique for making javascript calls to a remote script together with intervals, Internet Explorer will evetually bulge. Is there a memory leak in Internet Explorer?
As I started investigating how IE handles memory when manipulating the DOM [...]
Javascript file manager1.0 released
I have finally released my file manager widget, or file browser, based on javascript and DOM manipulation of the HTML. It’s look is completely controled by CSS properties which makes life a lot simpler. I haven’t really documented the CSS style rules but there is a full example in the distribution archive.
The goal is to make it as simple and reliable [...]
Tabgroup updates
Last Friday I received an updated version of my javascript Tabgroup widget (Project dead and gone) from the kind soul Dov Katz. I don’t know who he is but his extensions are useful and so I added them to the new version 1.1.
Currently there is a problem or a weird behaviour with tab text colors. [...]
Firesite CMS progress
I am slowly working on Firesite CMS even though there are thousands of things going on at the moment. It feels like a thousand things anyway. I am about to move to a new apartment. Somehow it seems me and my girlfriend is moving at least once a year. Always a hassle. Anyways, at the [...]
Remote scripting with javascript
I am currently working on a web based instant messenger client. In creating this I faced the problem of how to manipulate the web client from the server side. I didn’t want the client to reload every time it needed to check for status changes of contacts, new messages, send messages and what not. When [...]
Using the range object in Mozilla
In this column on the DOM Range Object I will be discussing the application of the Range object with JavaScript for HTML and XML documents. I have found that the Range object is possibly the singularly most powerful object given to us by the W3C DOM Level 2 Recommendation. The only drawback is that no [...]
