These days, you can’t write a web application without using one of the billionth javascript library. Two of them stood out of the crowd : prototype and jQuery. I will explain why did I choose jQuery. Prototype Prototype is comfortably installed in a lot of developers mind because of two reasons : it was the [...]
Picture yourself on a beautiful beach on a warm day. The sounds of the waves is music to your hears. You’re on a comfortable chair with a laptop on your knees connected via an incredible WiFi. You’re using a brand new web2.0 application that must be the gratest web site on the web. Then, you [...]
I already said Do not use the style property on HTML objects and as I was thinking how bad the innerHTML property can be, I considered doing an article on that subject. The problem was that stones were thrown at me after the first “Do not” article. Now I fear that this one may be [...]
I see a lot of person talking about how ajax is cool and it helps you doing things that you couldn’t do before it was “invented”. What most of these people don’t know is that most of the coolest features are not ajax. Ajax is just a way to communicate between a client and a [...]
Since ajax, a lot of people have to create HTML on the fly depending on response of the request. One mistake that I see a lot is that people are using the style property of their HTML objects. Why shouldn’t I do it? The style property has a precedence on every style Because the style [...]