A little while ago, I wrote about the dangerous point we’re at with HTML 5. At the time, I mentioned how browser vendors tend to jump on cool new things too quickly and that sometimes those things end up being removed and we’re left with incompatible implementations. Sadly, DOM Storage has become the first such... […]

I’ve been doing some research into cookies for my upcoming book and came across some interesting facts about the way browsers handle cookies. I started out by looking at the number of cookies that browsers allowed per domain. The results were interesting: Microsoft indicated that Internet Explorer 8 increased the cookie limit per domain to... […]

When Internet Explorer 8 introduced the XDomainRequest object, I was really excited because I had just read John’s post about cross-domain XHR in Firefox 3. Great, I thought to myself, the top two browsers now support cross-domain requests…we’re finally getting somewhere. This weekend I was digging in a little more when I found the Firefox... […]

Just thought I’d share a quick tip. I’m one of the few developers I know who uses Windows almost exclusively (sorry, no Mac here). Lately, I’ve been wanting to see how my JavaScript files would be compressed using Julien’s YUI Compressor. Previously, I was keeping a command window open and typing the command in directly.... […]

A little while ago, Doug Crockford wrote a blog entry where he proclaimed that web development was broken. His example was the suggestion that browsers implement a strict mode that would give informative errors. The assertion was that this type of validation was being done at the wrong end of the network, that code should... […]

The global object in JavaScript is vitally important: all global variables and functions become properties fo the global object. In browsers. the window object doubles as the global object, and most developers use it as such without even realizing. In other JavaScript environments, however, the global object is something else. Most of the time, it’s... […]

I’ve come to realize lately that for some reason or another, most people think the only book I’ve written is Professional Ajax. Perhaps it’s because that’s the book I feature prominently on my home page or because the buzz around Ajax was so great that people bought that book before they even knew I had... […]

Not too long ago, I was interviewed by Jennifer deJong of Software Development Times about Ajax, its use and misuse. We had a great conversation about Ajax’s early missteps and how things have evolved in the past couple of years. One of the main points I wanted to be clear on, as I try to... […]

Right now is a very exciting time for the Web as things are changing incredibly fast. Right now is also a very dangerous time for the Web as things are changing incredibly fast. We’re almost back to the early days of Netscape versus Internet Explorer. I’m not talking 4.0 here folks, I’m talking 3.0. For... […]

If there’s one thing Microsoft does really, really well, it making IDEs with great debugging capabilities. With the release of Internet Explorer 8, they took that experience and applied it towards JavaScript debugging. The result is nothing short of spectacular. To be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of Firebug’s JavaScript debugger. It sometimes... […]