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Some Internet Explorer Innovations You Probably Forgot About While Waiting for IE6 To Die
Lost in the past few years of IE6 based stagnation (and ensuing developer angst) is the fact that the Internet Explorer team have come up with some pretty cool enhancements to the way we build web sites over the past ten plus years. So, while we’re cheering on Firefox’s growing market share, hesitantly eying IE8…
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Say Hello to JavaScript’s Native getElementsByClassName
With the recent release of Firefox 3, we’ve now got a full fledged, mainstream browser that supports the long-awaited, often replicated, getElementsByClassName method. This is good news as we’ll all be just that much speedier as we ditch the various helper functions and go right into the browser for that functionality. The thing is, the…
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JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit Part 3- wherein Eval() kind of bums me out
(and several months later I finish my little JSON series…) So far my exploration of JSON has been a fun-filled walk in the park. Moonbeams and rainbows. All that. This last post on the subject is slightly less cool as I get into one of the least attractive components of the whole JSON thing- the…
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Automatically Track Outgoing Links in Google Analytics with Javascript
I’m currently reading the O’Reilly Google Analytics book, so of course I’m going to sandbox some stuff (albeit not here at this site.) One of the first things I seized on was the ability to track outgoing links by calling the urchinTracker() function onclick. Taking a few minutes out of my morning I put this…
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The difference between javascript's getElementById() and getElementsByName()
The above question is one I’ve gotten in my logs a couple of times. I don’t actually answer it anywhere on the site, so I figured I might as well answer it here. For some strange reason, in my mellowed old age, I’m all about helping and I haven’t written about web technologies in about…
