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Today when working on a JavaScript function to get all the DOM nodes which are under selection, I was going through the compatibility tables at quirksmode.org and scratching my head and wondering why the W3C guys have made this basic job all that difficult. I must admit that playing with range is complex (specially how…
I was working today on a UI fix to disable the text selection in the Dynamic Language Tools preference window during the drag & drop operation. After looking at the few samples on the web, I found that similar to many other compatibility issues, this is supported differently in IE and FireFox. Here is one…
Urdu and Hindi are two of the most popular languages of sub-continent. The speaker of these two languages combined are more than a billion. However the one major difference between these two languages is how these are written. The Hindi language is written using Devanagari script, while Urdu language is written in Urdu script (oriented…
With growing security concersn for the site, it’s now recommended to don’t use the Weak or No Ciphers at all. Unfortunately, these weak ciphers are enabled by default in most of the IIS versions. If you don’t want to supports the use of SSL ciphers that offer either weak encryption or no encryption at all,…
As I discussed in my previous thread, more and more people and moving toward the Tableless design to design the HTML files. Check the following post for detail: A Step toward Tableless Design Of course, the migration is not as simple as it looks. Designing the page layout with just the DIVs (basically not using…
If you often work on the JavaScript for the DHTML tasks, then there are good changes that you had wanted to modifying some of the existing built-in or third JavaScript functions. If you want to enhance the built-in JavaScript functions, then probably the best technique is closure. If you don’t already know about it, here…
One of our client reported a problem that on some of their site secure pages FireFox displays the “connection partially encrprypted warning” (by showing a small “i” on secure lock icon). When I first started looking at that problem, I thought it would be something as simple as some page being hosted on the HTTP…
When debugging some problem, usually the “Call Stack” window is really of help. It let’s quickly see how you reached in current location i.e. call chain. This is of help when using some Visual Debugger, but you know what, the actual error happens when the application goes Live. For live applications, a good practice is…
