Software As She’s Developed

The guys at EBusiness Apps - Andre Charland, Dave Johnson, Alexei White - have started a new weekly podcast on Ajax and invited me along for a general chat. They’re usually picking a general topic and riffing on it for a while - this week’s topic is long-term planning of Ajax projects … some companies […]

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Local storage - beyond 2KB cookies - is now a step closer with the latest Firefox effort. You get a local storage API like this: PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: sessionStorage.setItem(..) globalStorage.namedItem(domain).setItem(..) The fantastic thing is Brad Neuberg's Dojo work means we can code independently of the local storage mechanism. Since IE also has local storage, as well as Flash, most [...]

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Comet Takes to IE Like a Fish Takes to Acid Comet - or HTTP Streaming, if you will - is a little sensitive when it comes to portability, and I'll give you four guesses which major browser is causing the grief? Yeah, IE makes it difficult for two reasons: (a) IE's XMLHttpRequest component doesn't tell [...]

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