My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. I got it just before going to college. I had been interested in computers since junior high…
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I have read Life above the Service Tier a few times now. Its a very good paper, one that really changes your perspective, but I wish it was better. If you work on web applications and you haven’t read this paper I recommend that you go read it now — but do come back.
I agree with the overall reasoning and the conclusion.
So one obvious way to correct the thin client architecture is to implement a true MVC framework on the client side… That means that all “Presentation Flows” must occur within the currently Âloaded web page… So one workable model is the Single Page Application (SPA).
First let me get some minor complaints out of the way.
5 CommentsIt’s been too long since my last post. The trouble is that I have too many projects started. So I’m going to announce one of…
2 CommentsThe computer I built recently has been sitting disassembled for over a month. I started trying to solve the two problems I mentioned in the…
2 CommentsThe HTML button element has given me trouble in the past. My conclusion was to not use the button element except to progressively enhance the look of buttons. This means the button would initially be an input of type button and JavaScript, if enabled, would change it to a button element.
Well at work I’m working on an app that requires JavaScript and all form submissions are done with JavaScript already so I thought it would be safe to switch over to <button>. The server never uses the button names or values (all needed information is in other inputs – hidden or otherwise) so the IE bugs should not be an issue.
This time the problems I found were exposed with Firefox but the real problem was in the web app code even if the browser behavior was surprising.
2 CommentsEarly this year, perhaps as far back as February, I visited my friend Martin and he showed me a small form factor (Mini-ITX) computer running…
12 Comments[This originally appeared on my dev2dev blog 29-Jan-2008]
Here is the proper way to warn users so they don’t loose changes by accidentally navigating away from a form.
[This originally appeared on my dev2dev blog 20-Nov-2007]
One of the often cited benefits of semantic markup is improved accessibility. It is not a guarantee that if you use semantic markup that your page will be accessible but it helps and when you do find accessibility problems they are easier to fix.
[This originally appeared on my dev2dev blog 16-Nov-2007]
Here are instructions for using JSLint from Ant to check your JavaScript for common potential problems.
[This originally appeared on my dev2dev blog 16-Nov-2007]
Making web applications today means incorporating some amount of ajax and that means using JavaScript. Here are some pointers for bringing good engineering practices to JavaScript.
[This originally appeared on my dev2dev blog 10-Nov-2007]
Best practices lead to performance improvements in the Tech Preview WLS Admin Console.
[This originally appeared on my dev2dev blog 9-Nov-2007] The WLS Admin Console is not yet using an ajax library but it does do a few…
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