This came as a complete shock to me: due to the Google Mayday update, I have been monitoring how the bot accesses our sites in a futile search for clues as to the page rankings changes. Very surprised to discover googlebot fetching URLs that are _strictly_ available through Ajax only. Here is a sample request from earlier today that fetched… Read more →
I wrote this a while back when I needed to do pseudo AJAX calls to a remote host. Due to XSS restrictions and security policies, a normal XMLHttpRequest (XHR) call is not allowed to work across domains or even sub-domains. But Yahoo’s YQL interface kindly lets you GET any URL (which also means being able to submit via GET), irregardless… Read more →
I’ve had this post in my submission bin for a while but a question of the digital point forums today prompted me to dig it out… First of all, what is the difference between a javascript exception and a javascript error? Well, my view on this is simplistic: an exception IS an error of a runtime nature that can be… Read more →
Having frequented the Digital Point Forums as of recent, I have come to the conclusion that most people are barely coping with the concepts of javascript and AJAX. So much so that they are struggling to interpret anything that is more advanced than changing a few field names and including some javascript files in the page header. Naturally – people… Read more →
This is just a little snippet that can enable you to use star based rating on a page and interactively do something with the voting results. It is not a plug and play solution, you can attach whatever events you want to it and have complete control over the number of stars on show, the colour transitions and formatting. window.addEvent(“domready”,… Read more →
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