The goal of many modern web application developers these days is to create an app that will give the users a desktop-app-like experience . For that thing to happen, they abstracted the multiple page reloads in a typical web application and just made it to load a single page and do everything else inside it. This type of design is called Single Page Application or Single Page Interface.
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One of the most useful enhancement to HTML5 for Javascript is the data attribute. Many may not realize, but the data attribute brings a whole new level of programming flexibility in Javascript. It promotes programming by convention on Javascript.
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Considered as an essential resource for JavaScript programmers. O’Reilly’s JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 5th edition is one of the books to look for when it comes to JavaScript.
As good as the introduction sounds, the book is unfriendly to those who are unfamiliar with programming. But, is a good book to those who know programming but is new to JavaScript.
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The property innerHTML are read-only for the following html objects: COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HEAD, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR and trying to update the value of their innerHTML property will give you ‘unknown runtime error’ in IE browser. Though creating child elements by DOM method can resolve this…
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Here’s some statistical analysis as to popularity of recent web technologies in Java. By comparing the searches performed between Struts 2, JSF, Spring MVC and JBoss Seam using Google Trends, it appears that Struts 2 is gaining traction among Java developers while JSF started to lose ground since mid-2007. Searches for Spring MVC and JBoss Seam…
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For the past two months, we have been having our weekly T3 (Tuesday Tech Talk) sessions. It’s a 30-minute discussion about any technical topic the presenter would like to discuss. Presenters are randomly selected from the development group. So far, we have received nothing but benefits from this activity. Its benefits and advantages after the jump.
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As recommended by Yahoo on YSlow – tip #1: Make fewer HTTP request and tip #10: Minify javascript- we aim to implement these tips on all our projects with minimal head-ache. While these recommendations are truly useful, implementing them can be quite tedious and challenging. Consider having to maintain multiple min versions of the javascript and…
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