November 2006 Archives

Nov 27, 2006

background-image flicker caching bug in Internet Explorer

Posted by Dennis in Uncategorized 2 comments

I was working on a very frustrating issue that occurs in IE when the caching settings are set to “every visit to the page”. On slower servers, the background images were reloaded on a mouseover. While reloading the images dissappeared. One simple line of JavaScript will solve this issue:
document.execCommand(”BackgroundImageCache”, false, true);
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Nov 27, 2006

Sorting RSS feeds with XSLT

Posted by Dennis in Uncategorized 2 comments

I just found this very useful posting on how to sort RSS feeds by date using XSLT. Read it here


Nov 8, 2006

Flash MX 2004 Certified Designer

Posted by Dennis in Flash No comments

Yesterday I passed the Flash MX 2004 Certified Designer exam. So that makes me a Flash certified developer and designer :-). The exam wasn’t that difficult, it was easier than the developer exam. The Peachpit book covers enough ground to prepare you for this one!


Nov 3, 2006

JavaScript 2.0: Evolving a Language for Evolving Systems

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I just found this excellent PDF about JavaScript 2.0. Some nice stuff in there. Too bad that Internet Explorer 7 uses none of these new features!


Nov 3, 2006

Structure your JavaScript!

Posted by Dennis in Uncategorized No comments

With the emergence of the AJAX-hype, and the code chaos that comes with it, there has been an increased interest in the structuring of JavaScript code. Very good concepts have been devised that take JavaScript a level further. To begin structuring your JavaScript code, the use of packages/namespaces is valuable start. JavaScript 1.3 doesn’t support [...]