Comments for ReadyState4

Comment on Mozilla’s “home” JavaScript function by Mauvis

Mauvis — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:02:29 +0000

Yes, you’re totally right Bryan. This would have been the perfect moment to preach about namespacing your JavaScript!

Comment on Mozilla’s “home” JavaScript function by Bryan Migliorisi

Bryan Migliorisi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:49:54 +0000

Just another reason why people should namespace their JS. Additionally, back() and forward() are also present in FF.

Nice catch.

Comment on Dynamically creating an iframe in Internet Explorer for remote form submissions by admin

admin — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:06:37 +0000

Max, thanks for dropping the knowledge on me. I’ve clarified my post a bit to specify I’m only talking about if you want to target a dynamically generated iframe - but regardless, I’ve verified that your method works, too, and I like it better.

Comment on Dynamically creating an iframe in Internet Explorer for remote form submissions by Max

Max — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:18:53 +0000

This is not true. You most certainly can create an iframe in IE using .createElement(’iframe’);

I know because I have apps that do this 2-3 times per page.

The tricks are:

1.) If you want to set the border to none, you need to set the “frameBorder” attribute to “0″ (yes, camel case is required for IE)

2.) If you want to target this frame, from within the regular page, you need to set the “name” attribute…. BUT you can’t do this in IE with .setAttribute(’name’,'myIframe’);
Bug 235:
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/10/bug-235-createelement-is-broken-in-ie.html

What you will need to do is create it (for IE only) like this…

document.createElement(”);
//in case this post gets mangled, replace the
//sqare brackets in the following line with angled brackets.
document.createElement(’[iframe name=”myIframe”]’);

yes, it looks goofy and breaks spec, but this is IE.

For more info on what attributes you can and can’t set in IE using .setAttribute() see this bug (242)
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-242-setattribute-doesnt-always-work.html

Best of luck!

Comment on Cookie tab for Firebug by admin

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:43:30 +0000

Thanks Juan - being able to toggle it in console options would be great - then I wouldn’t even need to access the Cookies tab unless i’m searching for a particular cookie. I’ll update this entry.

Additionally, thanks for taking the time to make the “extending Firebug” writeup!

Comment on Cookie tab for Firebug by Honza

Honza — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:01 +0000

> but perhaps an extra option for turning that off would be nice.

There is an option in the “Cookies” panel “Show logs in console” (see Options menu), which is designed just for this.

It would be probably more logical to have this option within the Console Options menu.

Comment on Division of most popular social networks by country by Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:37:30 +0000

Great find. I believe the popularity of a social networking app in a specific geography may be a result of how closely it’s UIs map to the local culture’s social interactions. I’ve blogged about it here: http://cycloneranger.com/node/105

It’s all speculative, of course.