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Preload Ajax Data as JSON
Preloading Ajax data as JSON has helped improve the load time and perceived performance of our family software application. Most of the pages in our web client are dynamically generated in the browser from a complex set of JavaScript and CSS, so we're...
Sharing Dotfiles between Windows and *nix
Tomas Restrepo wrote a post about sharing dotfiles between Windows and Ubuntu , specifically about sharing .vimrc (Linux) and _vimrc (Windows) and the .vim (Linux) and vimfiles (Windows) directories. I have a different solution. On Windows, my C:\AutoExec...
Multiple Firefox Profiles: Run Firefox 2 and 3 Side-By-Side, and More
I find it useful to have multiple Firefox profiles for developing and testing. A clean profile for testing allows you to replicate most users' environments, who don't install extensions. Running a development profile in a separate profile lets you restart...
Debugging JavaScript in IE from Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
It's not at all obvious how to use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition to debug JavaScript in Internet Explorer. So I wrote it up at the Cozi Tech Blog .
Daylight Savings Time and JavaScript
The JavaScript engines in Firefox 2 (Windows) and IE6 can't handle the new Daylight Savings Time rules in the U.S. The Date() function returns a value that is off by an hour if the system time is between the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday...
Transparent PNGs can Deadlock IE6
Over at Cozi , we've started a new technical blog . I just put my first post up, describing a nasty problem we had late last year. Here's the summary: Internet Explorer 6 does not support transparency in PNG images. The best-known solution is to use the...
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