Software As She’s Developed

I've been playing with Dojo, specifically the rich text editor, and came across a Gotcha in setting up the whole thing, which isn't documented too clearly. Specifically, Dojo needs its own window.onload - if you have your own window.onload (as you probably do if you need any initialisation), it will conflict with Dojo!!! The solution is [...]

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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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