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Why AJAX forms need an explanation?

~ 3rd February 2006. · 10:06 CET · permanent link · printer friendly ~

Web 2.0 is currently all over the Internet. Web based applications are popping up on a weekly basis. The first contact with the future interface is usually a notification form with AJAX. Predictable or not, it has its’ reasons.

Most of the time, in spreading-the-word phase, an application’s homepage (teaser page) gives you short and sweet – a paragraph or two – overview of what it’s gonna do for you and why it’s cool. And a notification form. Nothing else, nothing more. Subscribe or not. Simple as that.

But lately, I found some of such pages too complicated for a visitor. They require guessing. And therefor they possibly fail. Continue reading ›

Why browser detection with JavaScript is a bad habit?

~ 2nd February 2006. · 16:01 CET · permanent link · printer friendly ~

What’s wrong with this JavaScript function?

var xmlHttp = function(){
    var r = null;
    var browser = navigator.appName;
    if(browser == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer'){
        r = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
    } else {
        r = new XMLHttpRequest();
    };
    return r;
};

You don’t have a clue? Then this is the right article for you… (well except you don’t know why are you reading this in the first place) Continue reading ›

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