A while ago I had to develop a few mobile-oriented applications, essentially serving existing content on tiny screen resolutions. As one could expect, I approached it from the XML/XSLT perspective and designed a few XSLT stylesheets to render existing XML content (all of my recent content is in XML format) in a more mobile-friendly format.
At approximately the same time I was working a lot with Blogger APIs and Atom ... and you can see the results of these seemingly unrelated activities in my new InformIT article “Make Your Web Pages Mobile-Friendly” where I'm describing how you can take an existing Atom feed and wrap it into a mobile-friendly user interface.
UTF-8 text file generated from ASP
In the previous post, I've described how to output plain text encoded as UTF-8 from an ASP script. To save that text to a file on the client's disk drive, you can add the Content-disposition header, indicating the ASP script response is actually an attachment that has to be saved to disk. However, some Windows programs expect to see the Byte-order mark in front of the UTF-8 text. To generate this byte stream, I've used a simple trick: first I've switched the codepage to US-ASCII (ensuring there will be no character transcoding), wrote the three byte sequence and switched back to UTF-8 to write the rest of the text.
Sub OutputCSV(finalText)
Response.Clear
Response.Charset = "utf-8"
Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
Response.AddHeader "Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=savedData.csv"
Response.Expires = 0
Response.Codepage = 1252
Response.Write Chr(239) & Chr(187) & Chr(191)
Response.Codepage = 65001
Response.Write finalText
Response.End
End Sub
High-performance AJAX
Julien Lecomte has shared an excellent presentation describing how to create high-performance AJAX applications. Highly recommended reading :)
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