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Entries for October, 2009

jQuery 1.4 Preview

I just found this preview of jQuery 1.4. I read some of this stuff at the jQuery site, but this is a nice explanation of the proposed functionality of the next major version of jQuery. I think the new ‘live’ event handlers are going to be great. I can’t stress how much the ‘live’ method [...]

Cross Domain AJAX with CSSHttpRequest

Normally, AJAX is limited to retrieving data on the same domain that served the page. This is a limitation of the XMLHttpRequest, done mostly for security purposes. There are several ways to get around this limitation, of course, using a variety of methods and techniques. This is one of the stranger that I’ve come across [...]

Google Chrome Frame – Webkit in IE

Steve Ballmer has, in the past, stated that he would be open to the idea of Internet Explorer dropping the Trident rendering engine in favor of the open-source Webkit. I, for one, would love it if this happens – Trident is the bane of web developers around the world. Simply stated, it is holding the [...]