Subscribe
FollowCategory Archives: Web Browsers
Cross Domain XHR with Firefox 2
By now know you know that trying to do an XMLHttpRequest (XHR or AJAX) call to a domain that is different from the domain of the hosted JavaScript in Firefox will throw an exception. Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open If you don’t want a history of the past solutions, page down [...]
Screen Readers and Listening at the Speed of Sound
Here is a presentation given by a guy named Victor Tsaran on how he personally uses screen readers to browse the web. As web developers, accessibility is an important aspect of our work and cannot be ignored. How many websites have you browsed that had flash navigation? If you’re not a web developer, you need [...]
I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
So again, I show up late to the party. IE7 is already out, but my target customers are still using IE6. So today, boys and girls, we’re going to discover the magical world of using I-Frame shims to hide those bleeding heart select boxes from showing through our layered elements. Typically, when creating an I-Frame [...]
JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug
Download FirebugCodeCoverage-0.1.xpi Recently, I’ve become interested in client side automated testing tools. When I found the Selenium plug-in for Firefox, I was blown away. I can record actions in my browser and play them back! No more manual testing of JavaScript code! Researching a little bit more about automated testing tools led to the discovery [...]
Forward Compatibility and JavaScript