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Helpful error handling in jQuery
If you’re going to build a reusable tool, you’re going to want to be able to detect, handle and report error messages in a nice, clean way. It will make you and any other dev happy. The cleanest way of handling genuine errors for developers usin...
Custom stateful jQuery widgets
The widget library included in jQuery UI is pretty cool, but sometimes you need to roll your own custom object. If it didn’t have to be reusable, you could always just use a whole slew of bind methods on a specific page. Likewise, if network bandw...
Cross Site Scripting – the new old way
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
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
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
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...


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