Sounds, IE7 and Security Warnings
Some of you may know that the last few weeks I’ve been writing an AJAX chat application that plugs in to DeskPRO. One of the problems we ran into is playing sound notifications. The problem is that IE7 likes to pop up a security warning when you use the usual <embed> code. This was unacceptable. [...]
Auto-DST Detection
Online apps usually have a way to set your timezone so that all times are local to you. One common feature many end-users expect is some mechanism that automatically detects when DST is on/off and changes things accordingly.
Javascript Objects and Member Visibility
So many web developers know just a little about Javascript. Enough to use a library like jQuery somewhat effectively, but not enough to understand how to create properly structured applications. I’m not going to get into how objects work in Javascript, or how to use them, I’ll leave that for another day. I just want [...]
