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A Gentle DropBox Rant
So let me get this straight… Dropbox.com is supposed to save me trouble by maintaining duplicates of files stored in the My Dropbox folder on all machines which I have the app installed, and on their website. That seems like …
The “MS Shell Dlg” Mystery (Solved)
If you haven’t noticed (and are using a PC), the headlines on this blog should now be rendered using the MS Shell Dlg font [I’ve since changed this and have been experimenting with custom fonts via @font-face, but all information …
SWFUpload Doesn’t Work with Windows 7
Uploading files using a browser has never been ideal, partly since JavaScript and/or HTML do not have the privilege to read size of files on the local file system which stands in the way of calculating upload progress and informing …
Live XML Editor
While I don’t recommend editing XML files by hand, its not an uncommon task and I occasionally find myself having to do it. As I am a big advocate of web based applications, I was hoping to find a web …
jQuery’s .live(), Enhanced
If you’re not using jQuery’s .live() method you are really missing out. live() works by storing a selector-to-handler mapping in an internal hash which allows it to execute the handler for all existing and future elements which match that selector. …
How to Get or Set Text Value of an XML Node in JavaScript Using jQuery
Edited on October 7th: I realized after the original post that the code provided was not entirely correct. Specifically, it ignored CDATA values. Methods below have been updated to reflect that fix. The logic for extracting the text values is …
Converting an XML DOM Object to a String Using JavaScript
This is actually very simple, but it took a bit to discover so I’m posting it to address that. function getXmlAsString(xmlDomObj){ return (typeof XMLSerializer!==”undefined”) ? (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(xmlDomObj) : xmlDomObj.xml; }
Firebug Console: Best (Cross-Browser) Practices
The Firebug plug-in is an essential and unparalleled tool for (web) UI development. If you’re not using it, you should be. But in any case, some of its features can make a lazy (or busy) programmer cause serious problems in …
Firefox 3.5 Issues: Dark JPGs, XML parsing with JavaScript, etc.
I downloaded Firefox 3.5 last week and while I did notice a slight performance improvement, there are a few unexpected updates as well: Photos look much darker in 3.5 since it uses the embedded ICC profile where other versions/browsers don’t. …