Software As She’s Developed

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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Working (offline) on Richer Plugin, I've expanded the list of reasons you'd want to use a Richer Plugin, i.e. Flash, Java Applets, Standalone clients, Firefox extensions etc. Here's the list of things Ajax can't do on it's own - what else is there? Browser morphing Adding buttons, toolbars, bookmarks, icons; changing browser behaviour. Local file access Reading and [...]

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