What was old (and forgotten) is new again (and scaring everyone, again)

September 26th, 2006 @ 8am : no comments : Share This
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I’ve come across half a dozen site in the past month that seem to be concerned with a little JavaScript that will provide information about the user’s surfing. The idea is that some site can access this history and make certain assumptions about the user of the browser. As if this will be any good information. Though one site did mention the scenario where one site may check the browser history to see if the use came from some competitor. In this case the site would or would not provide information to the user. This is all speculation on the scenario. continue...

Convert HTML forms to read-only

June 4th, 2006 @ 10am : no comments : Share This
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Last summer I worked on a project. The project involved the development of 26 forms to collect some internal user information. Most of these forms are anywhere from 15-80 fields. Took us quite a while to get the kinks out of the system for the client. continue...

AJAX Server File Browser

April 16th, 2006 @ 5pm : no comments : Share This
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I was reading a book from SitePoint.com, DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM. Way in the back of this book is a section in interactions with the server via client-side JavaScript. The author, Stuart Langridge, covers an application that allows the user to a) view a tree of folders on the server and b) move a file from one folder to a next via drag and drop. Wow. continue...

Better printed page links

November 25th, 2005 @ 8am : no comments : Share This
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This is in a word…FANTASTIC! continue...