Software As She’s Developed

Mahemoff’s Podcast/Blog - Web, Programming, Usabilty from the Author of ‘Ajax Design Patterns’ (AjaxPatterns.org)

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Ajax Diagnosis And Testing Patterns - Podcast

October 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Welcome to Ye Olde Ajax Patterns Podcaste, the final in this series that began twelve months ago. 3+4+4+1 = 12 podcasts in all, covering 71 patterns (the 70 patterns in the the book as well as Dyanmic Favicons). Find them all on the podcast category - http://www.softwareas.com/category/podcast/ or subscribe to the podcast feed at http://www.softwareas.com/podcast/rss2. Thanks […]

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Portable Comet? It’s the IFrame, Stupid!

June 6th, 2006 · 10 Comments

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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Who Needs These Browser Warnings?

March 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Setting up a new Windows PC today and not loving the browser warnings. The messages, as I recall them: "You are about to submit the form. It's dangerous.", "You're going to leave the page. It's dangerous.", "This page is encrypted. It's dangerous.", "This page is not encrypted. It's dangerous.", "This is H20. It's dangerous." So my question [...]

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HTTP Streaming: An Alternative to Polling the Server

November 4th, 2005 · 8 Comments

If Ajax apps are to be rich, there must be a way for the server to pass new information to the browser. For example, new stock quotes or an instant message someone else just sent you. But the browser's not a server, so the server can't initiate an HTTP connection to alert the browser. The [...]

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