AJAX, XML, XSLT (and some ASP) tricks

Being one of the zillion programmers jumping into rough waters of XML, XSLT and AJAX (combined with ASP back-end) I had my own share of "reinventing the wheel" experience. Hopefully by documenting some of these reinventions, I'll save you a few minutes of hair-pulling.

IE8 has a right table border problem on JavaScript-inserted cells

If you use collapsed table borders on with IE8 and insert or delete cells in the table with JavaScript, the right border will be missing. Fo...

Another XSLT-related bug in IE

I’ve created an RSS feed that points to various web pages that use client-side XSLT ( read this article if you’re not familiar with the arc...

OMG, more browsers are coming

The EU commission has reached an interesting agreement with Microsoft : Microsoft will present European users with a choice screen allowing ...

Custom data in HTML5 tags

Quite often I’d like to add application data to my HTML markup to pass information between server-side scripts generating the HTML markup an...

Find Facebook Friends with Your Facebook Connect Application

InformIT.com has just published the last article in my Facebook Connect series. This uses the common task of finding the Facebook friends of...

Create client-side charts with Highcharts

I’ve stumbled across a Highcharts announcement on ajaxian.com a few days ago. Highcharts looked like something I’ve been (passively) looki...

A nasty Firebug “surprise”

If you happen to believe that the client-side XSLT transformations are a good thing (I am firmly footed in that camp), Firefox 3.x brings no...

Publish stories on Facebook

In my first Facebook-related article published by InformIT , I’ve described the basics of Facebook Connect – a JavaScript API that can conn...

jQuery event delegation

A new article published on the Learning jQuery blog explains the intricacies of event delegation and the new .live() jQuery method . The ev...

Use Facebook Connect to Bring Your Application to Millions of Users

Almost a year ago, I’ve joined Facebook which has at that time rolled out the initial sandbox of the Facebook Connect environment. I’ve dev...

Learning jQuery book from Packt

When I’ve decided to start using jQuery, I bought a number of books to help me get started (my time is way too valuable to be spent on Googl...

Introduction to RDFa

I’ve finally found time to read the RDFa articles published on A List Apart . I have to digest the information and try to figure out whether...

Ajax with jQuery

The third jQuery article I wrote for InformIT covers the jQuery Ajax support. It describes simple Ajax calls that insert HTML fragments into...

My second jQuery article: refactoring a web page

When I’ve decided to switch from X library to jQuery, I was faced with tons of (now outdated) pages in my web site that I had to migrate to ...

XSLT: Truncate text with ellipsis

A great set of XSLT templates that allows you to truncate XHTML markup (or any XML node) at specified text length . I was impressed ;)

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