Internet Explorer cross-site scripting warning
I came across the warning “Internet Explorer has modified this page to help prevent cross-site scripting.” which is triggered by the IE8 security filter. However, IE gives no clues of why the warning...
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Progressive enhancements with JavaScript and CSS
It is clear that IE6 is not going away just yet, at least not for mainstream websites targeting a large (and non-tech) audience. Quite some time and effort is put into making design and functionality...
View ArticleInstance and class based plugins in YUI 3
Using plugins in YUI 3 is a way to add functionality to existing objects in YUI (very much like you would use prototype to augment a function to a normal JavaScript object). Objects in YUI all derive...
View ArticleCustom Modules in YUI 3
YUI 3 uses modules to group functionality and to only load what is used. This post describes how to create custom modules. The typical way modules are used is within the use() statement:...
View ArticleGet selected value of radio button using YUI 3
Getting the value of a the currently selected radio button may be done in a couple of ways. This is one approach using YUI 3. Here is the HTML: <input type="radio" name="myoptions" value="one">...
View ArticleIntroduction to Google Maps API
I just did a short talk at the Google Technology User Group meetup in Stockholm this evening about the Google Maps API. The purpose of the talk was to give a quick introduction on how to get started as...
View ArticleOptimera STHLM
I’m speaking at Optimera STHLM (that’s Optimize Stockholm) 31st of May about modern web architecture using JavaScript, Ajax and RESTful web services and what that means to both frontend and backend.
View ArticleAjax and REST architecture – Optimera STHLM slides
I did a presentation at Optimera STHLM entitled Faster websites with AJAX and REST architecture. The talk are more on an architecture level, rather than about implementation details. Slides are...
View ArticleDeveloping Large-Scale JavaScript Web Sites – SWDC2010 slides
Being very humbled to be part of the star struck lineup at The Scandinavian Web Developer Conference 2010 I did a talk about Developing Large-Scale JavaScript Web Sites (slides available here as PDF)....
View ArticleSimple Mantis JSON API
Mantis has a SOAP API, but I wanted JSON to display the most recent tickets on a web page using JavaScript. Hence I wrote a simple wrapper in PHP that does a SOAP call and returns the result as JSON to...
View ArticleCommand-line base64 encoding of file into clipboard
Often I find myself in the need to base64 encode a file. Typically an image to inline in a CSS file. I added the following to my ~/.bash_profile (OSX) for convenience: function base64() { openssl...
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