Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: JavaScript
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6 December 2006
Debugging JavaScript
In the hey-day of Internet Explorer 5 and Office 2000, there was a nice application called Microsoft Script Debugger. In place of the Error on Line 188 statuses Internet Explorer would give you, it would drop you into a debugger which held remote control over Internet Explorer as you stepped through the code, watched variables, […]
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29 November 2006
The Challenges of Developing an Ajax Application
I do not think anyone prefers the old style click->reload style applications over newer Web 2.0 applications. Think back to the first time you saw Google Maps: was your first though closer to “Cool!” or “Mapquest’s UI is so much better?” There was an initial wave of resistance to developing applications with this technology, with […]
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20 September 2006
Difference between a post and a submission
ASP.net features, by default, a wonderful thing called a viewstate which I wrote about on Monday. However, viewstate is just one technology ASP.net uses to make development on that platform easy. Another is the postback. Postbacks aren’t really a technology at all, just a re-factoring of the general submission patter that’s been around since CGI […]
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23 January 2006
Form Validation Library
A JavaScript form validation library. It’s not as developer-friendly as ASP.net’s, but for a language like PHP that doesn’t have anything, it’s a nice comprimise.
Read more at chrysalis.sourceforge.net