JavaScript uses url-encoded UTF-8 strings to perform Ajax POSTs
Today, I had an encoding issue with a website I was working on. I had a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> tag in the <head>-section, to ensure the...
View ArticleExperimenting with Adobe AIR and jQuery – Part 6
Until now, I had hard-coded the information about 3 songs in my Top100-application. It was time to make it dynamic, loading 100 songs from an XML-file. The file looks like this: <?xml version="1.0"...
View ArticleExperimenting with Adobe AIR and jQuery – Part 7
In Step 7 of my Top100-application, I wanted to be able to enter a number and press ENTER, to immediately go to that specific number in the list. This is very similar to the ability in PowerPoint to...
View ArticleUsing JSConsole to debug an javascript issue on an iPad
Yesterday I ran into an issue with one of the websites I’m developing. All of a sudden, some pages would not show correctly on an iPad. However, as Safari on the iPad doesn’t provide “developer tools”,...
View Article2 Javascript discoveries
If you are an experienced Javascript developer, the following will not come as a surprise to you, but for those who might be struggling with some of the quirks of this otherwise pretty useful language,...
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