Fbloggs Geekdom » JavaScript http://www.fbloggs.com Duncan's musings on tech related topics Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to access cross-domain data with AJAX using JSONP, jQuery and PHP http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/07/09/how-to-access-cross-domain-data-with-ajax-using-jsonp-jquery-and-php/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/07/09/how-to-access-cross-domain-data-with-ajax-using-jsonp-jquery-and-php/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:21:49 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=310 I’m guessing that if you are reading this post you have already encountered the problem of the same origin policy with regards to retrieving data with AJAX from urls in other domains than your’s (the requesting domain). This policy, enforced by…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/07/09/how-to-access-cross-domain-data-with-ajax-using-jsonp-jquery-and-php/feed/ 2 Articles I’ve Written on IBM i (iSeries) Technology Subjects http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/09/17/articles-ive-written-on-ibm-i-technology-subjects/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/09/17/articles-ive-written-on-ibm-i-technology-subjects/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:32:05 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=170 I’ve written a few articles in recent years that have been published by MC Press Online, relating to IBM i topics. If you don’t know what the IBM i is (or an AS/400, iSeries or System i), you can stop…

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]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/07/27/feedback-jquery-plugin/feed/ 0 My Favorite FireFox Plugins for Web Development http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/05/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-for-web-development/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/05/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-for-web-development/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:51:21 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=68 Firebug – debug your applications. An absolute must. Best features:
  • Debugger – step through, over, etc.
  • Console log for monitoring AJAX interactions -shows parms sent, data returned, round-trip time.

  • Web Developer – fantastic CSS diagnostic support. Best features:
    • View generated source – important…
    • ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/05/my-favorite-firefox-plugins-for-web-development/feed/ 1     Checked attribute of checkboxes- IE versus FireFox http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/28/checked-attribute-of-checkboxes-ie-versus-firefox/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/28/checked-attribute-of-checkboxes-ie-versus-firefox/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 00:15:36 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=65 http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/28/checked-attribute-of-checkboxes-ie-versus-firefox/feed/ 0 How To Check or Uncheck all checkboxes in jQuery http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/01/check-or-uncheck-all-checkboxes-in-jquery/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/01/check-or-uncheck-all-checkboxes-in-jquery/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 05:25:12 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=43 This post explains how to set a group of checkboxes to checked or unchecked using jQuery 1.3, by clicking an “All” or “None” button.

    First, let’s select our group of checkboxes. I’ve seen some fairly complicated jQuery selectors for finding checkboxes…

    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/05/01/check-or-uncheck-all-checkboxes-in-jquery/feed/ 2     How To Create A Global Event Object For Both IE and FireFox http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/12/27/how-to-create-a-global-event-object-for-both-ie-and-firefox/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/12/27/how-to-create-a-global-event-object-for-both-ie-and-firefox/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:15:06 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/how-to-create-a-global-event-object-for-both-ie-and-firefox/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/12/27/how-to-create-a-global-event-object-for-both-ie-and-firefox/feed/ 4 Get FireBug! http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/12/08/get-firebug/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/12/08/get-firebug/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:43:48 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/get-firebug/ Firebug beta 1.0 is now available. This is by far the best toolbar available for FireFox or IE for debugging web applications. See This blog entry at Sitepoint for more details.  A few  of the features I really like are:
    • The debugger  – identifies…
    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/12/08/get-firebug/feed/ 2     Attempt to use JSON http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/11/29/attempt-to-use-json/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/11/29/attempt-to-use-json/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:45:19 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/attempt-to-use-json/ Ok, so JSON is conceptually simple. See json.org for more info. So I include json.js in a page, then attempt to reference the parseJSON method of a string object and get an error. Why? Is it because I reference the…

    ]]>     http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/11/29/attempt-to-use-json/feed/ 0     Found a solution to the click problem. http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/11/24/found-a-solution-to-the-click-problem/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2006/11/24/found-a-solution-to-the-click-problem/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:12:07 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/2006/11/24/found-a-solution-to-the-click-problem/ I confirmed that click is not a W3C method for anchor objects. However, thanks to the prototype property of objects you can extend a host object by adding methods to it. The code below does this for anchor elements, although you…

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