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October 19th, 2006

Web Development vs Cleaning Products

Is it me or are there a number a web development terms that are the same as some cleaning products. Here are the ones I have come across so far: SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - I think the connection with cleaning is obvious! AJAX - household cleaners - not sure it is still sold as AJAX in the UK though. Flash - A recent new advertising campaign for Flash ...

May 3rd, 2006

Whitespace in Firefox

I have been busy doing stuff with the DOM at work. One thing that continually bugs me is that Firefox seems to find a lot of whitespace and called them textnodes. Obviously when you use firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling or previousSibling and you think that what you are getting from your script should be a div or something other than a textnode this can cause some problems. Internet Explorer seems to ...

April 19th, 2006

Bite Size Standards

Bite Size Standards - again another site a bit like A List Apart although more blog like. It looks a bit like an older version A List Apart from perhaps a couple of years ago - anyway I haven't really looked at it properly yet but it looks promising!

November 16th, 2005

Bubbles and propagation

Dicsovered something useful today. One of those things you might scour the internet for and almost find the answer but not quite. Basically if you want to stop propagation of event through the DOM the events cannot be inline. For example to stop an onclick event bubbling up it must be assigned along the lines of: thing.onclick = dosomething; not like this: For more detail about this subject look here:Event orderDOM ExamplesDocument Object Model Events