I have been working with the HTML5 video element a bit on both iPad and the Chrome browser. I’ve started to find some odd behavior around the seeked event. First a touch of background about the seeked event. According to the spec the seeked event should fire when the seeking IDL attribute changes to false. [...]
I have a web page that needs to go through a bootstrap step in order to make all the correct Ajax calls. So I was simply looping through the results and making the Ajax call like the following. You will note that I needed to pass a name to the processing of the data returned [...]
While using the YUI Library, I came across an annoying issue. It is stated places that order matters when dealing with the library includes, yet there are still some issues that come up. The main one I’ve found is with the YAHOO.util.ScriptNodeDataSource this is used for accessing remote data via the YUI Get Utility. But [...]
So many times it is nice to add a dynamic graph to a web page. I’ve personally done this with JavaScript libraries like PlotKit or Plotr. Also there is the use of Flash with PHP or ASP.Net in amCharts. But if the user doesn’t have Flash or JavaScript turned off these tools fail. While this [...]
In an earlier post, I reported that the TR element in IE6/IE7 had a read only innerhtml. I have found a way to get around this while not perfect it works. It turns out while the TR’s innnerhtml is read only a TD is not. So you can add a TD with a column span [...]
While building a simple shopping cart I was adding an update link so customers could easily update the cart quantities I would have done Ajax but we are on a time crunch and it would be more billable so get this much working now add the rest in the second phase. So I have my [...]
Finding a fix for the dynamic table row problem, I started to use the insertRow() functionality which did solve the problem in FireFox. So I would call insertRow() on the table then returned in the table row object that I then used innerHTML to add all the relevant code to produce the inputs and labels. [...]
I’ve been building a web based application that uses Ajax and other JavaScript extensively. While working with adding rows to tables dynamically I’ve found the wrong way to do it and thought I should share. When adding rows to tables if the rows are simply data this method will work fine, but when the rows [...]