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AJAX Bestiary

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Your field guide to the wonderful world of Ajax, News, Techniques, Tutorials, Examples and More

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  • Cross Site Scripting – the new old way

    Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 18:02 in tutorial, article, xhtml, dom, xss, jquery

    Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is a big security no-no. It’s never supposed to happen, because as we all know, any script operating within your page has full access to the entire DOM of the page. Then again, there is so much functionality that we want...

  • Using the jQuery data method as a local datastore

    Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 18:37 in tutorial, development, article, jquery

    At some point, we all have to store datasets on the client. We can clutter the namespace with ever more variables and try really hard to avoid collisions. We can cram variables into some local object that we’re using in the normal execution of our ...

  • The future of Ajax Bestiary

    Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 21:41 in update, meta

    One of my colleagues pointed out the rather high ranking of Ajax Bestiary in his Net News Wire Dinosaur Report today.  While 2nd place isn’t the worst possible ranking, It demonstrates that I haven’t posted anything in quite a while. I&#...

  • Converting Between Wiki Markup & HTML with Prototype: Part 2 ListsAt

    Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 09:00 in tutorial, Wiki, article, convert, curry, prototype

    At the end of part 1 of the series, the system could easily handle direct replacement of certain html entities with their wiki markup counterparts.  Unfortunately this was a pretty limited implementation that could only handle those entities that ha...

  • Converting Between Wiki Markup & HTML with Prototype

    Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 09:00 in tutorial, Wiki, tools, article, conversion, prototype

    Wiki’s are amazing and powerful tools, unfortunately their dependence on specialized markup creates a huge barrier to their general adoption in many organizations.  This is a first step at building a wysiwyg editor for wiki markup.  While I w...

  • A Fast & Easy Prototype Based Curry

    Posted on Wednesday December 17th, 2008 at 09:44

    in Javascript the Good Parts, Douglas Crockford presents a simple method to curry functions.  It’s a great tool that allows you to build functions with arguments predefined in them dynamically.  In his implementation Array.splice & an ind...

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4 stars Adrian

good blog

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