I was just doing some updates to one of my sites to fix some dynamic javascript problems that I'd discovered with the past couple of Firefox 3 betas.   A page I'd designed back in 2006 had a moving DIV that changed position as a result of a post back from ...

I came across a little quirk today when trying to change the position of a background-image with javascript. I tried and I tried but I just couldn't change the background image position with javascript. Typically, you just use something like this to change an element's style with javascript, where attribute is ...

I personally really like JSON, but there is still some debate around the whole XML vs JSON thing. So, in the spirit of true "10 reasons to/for/why <something>", I present to you 5 reasons Why and 5 reasons Why Not to use JSON in your web development or AJAX ...

So today Sun announced JavaFX. Curiously, lots of people are hailing it as "The end of AJAX" ... Details are fairly sketchy at the moment, but from what I can tell JavaFX is basically just a scripting language for the SWING GUI library, with a few libraries thrown in to ...

I was idly looking at the web page for Wollzelle - the people behind script.aculo.us - today and took a look at their recent work for the Gucci website. Its certainly a pretty nice design, and as you expect it make use of some script.aculo.us effects and they have curiously opted ...

Recently I've often found myself thinking about the differences between a typical desktop application and a web-based application, not so much from the technical aspects but from the usability and presentation aspects. In a typical desktop application, people tend to expect an application to look and largely work the same as ...

I was browsing around today and came across the "google-code-prettify" Javascript and CSS code prettifier (download page) on Google Code. If you cant be bothered to look, it seems to be a fairly accomplished code-highlighting script - this is the description of the langauges supported from the Google Code site: C ...

Update: I am talking about Javascript in a web browser here!  This link seems to have been picked up somewhere else not in the weddevelopment shpere so is causing a bit of confusion! Javascript is a fairly misunderstood tool - until recently no one really paid it much attention other than ...

In a recent post I talked about combating javascript bloat to improve your site's loading times, which basically boiled down to reducing the number and size of requests needed to be made by the browser to download all of your site's javascript. That approach is fine, but I was ...

Does it strike you as a bit strange that in the days where 8mbps ADSL is nearly universally available (in the UK anyway), some web pages are still pretty slow to load? Its not uncommon for a page that is mostly text with a few small images on it ...