An interesting question came up at work today. We had some existing code that was using the innerText dom method. It worked fine on IE, but not on Firefox (to be clear, I’m used to that working the other way around). If you look at QuirksMode you will see Firefox is the only browser that […]
Read MoreOK, I took some flack from a buddy of mine who is starting JQuery about my AJAX samples. AJAX with JQuery is all fun and games until you start passing complex data (apparently). So here is a quick demo of how to call a web method that returns a list of custom objects via JQuery.Ajax […]
Read MoreYou know what this is going to be about. Things I should have known about earlier than TODAY! 1. JavaScript: setTimeout(function, milliseconds); After a specified number of milliseconds the passed in function gets executed. Why I should have known this: useful for un-obtrusive UI design. Display a message, but instead of making the user close […]
Read MoreChris Brandsma and I were both invited to appear on geekSpeak, a call in talk show on MSDN?s Channel 9. The format is a live-call in show with questions from the viewers and you see our screens, but not our ugly mugs. Chris and I focused on very different topics and both of our sessions […]
Read MoreFor all of the JQuery lovers out there, the JQuery has now released version 1.3.2. http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.3.2 There are no new “features” in this release (unlike .Net service packs), but I looks like it is worth the download. First off: speed improvements — even with IE6. These come in a number of areas: the selector engine, […]
Read MoreLong title, but this is a problem that has haunted me for a while now. I have an Asp.Net WebMethod that takes a List/IEnumerable/Array of stuff as a parameter, how do I send that stuff to that method using the JQuery Ajax method. Now, without having to reinvent the wheel, do check out David Ward’s […]
Read MoreIf you’ve done any serious Web Forms development you have almost definitely run into issues with the HTML that is generated. There’s a bunch of options for cleaning this up but one of the simplest is to use JQuery (or I suppose even pure JS if you are a masochist) to remove the offending elements […]
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to to forum today…wait, wrong talk. Here something I’ve been dealing a lot with lately, the ASP.Net Checkbox control and JQuery. Also, the HTML checkbox and JQuery. OK, Checkboxes and JQuery. Problem is you don’t always get what you think you are going to get, and there are […]
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