Using Fiddler to help develop cross domain capable JavaScript web applications

By On March 19, 2010 · 1 Comment

This post is going to be short and sweet. “Short” because Fiddler makes working around this problem so simple. And “Sweet” because I think this is really powerful and will allow you to develop applications that show why cross domain access, in some situations, should be allowed. In my last…

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Making cross domain JavaScript requests using XMLHttpRequest or XDomainRequest

By On March 12, 2010 · 15 Comments

Cross domain requests (also known as Cross Origin Resource Sharing) can be made using JavaScript without trickery, as far as I can tell, in Firefox 3.5, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. This is done with all browsers except IE8 using a standard XMLHttpRequest object. The only thing required to notify [...]

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How does Google Real-Time Search work?

By On December 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

On or around the 12th of December 2009 Google released a feature they are calling “real-time search”.

Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand.

Although I’d still argue that we’re [...]

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Which Rich Internet Application Technology will dominate?

By On November 7, 2009 · 4 Comments

I’ve been a member of the RIA Developers Group on LinkedIn for a short while now and the other day Patrick Bay posted a link to an interesting article on Computer Weekly about the prominence of RIAs. A few comments were posted and then Patrick questioned which RIAs would “bubble [...]

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Drag Drop bug in JQuery UI 1.5.3

By On January 31, 2009 · 1 Comment

JQuery UI Update – 31/01/2009 @ 17:15

Richard Worth just got in touch with me via twitter to let me know that JQuery UI 1.5.3 is only compatible with JQuery 1.2.6.

The bug is not in jQuery UI 1.5.3, but just that 1.5.3 is only compatible with 1.2.6. [...]

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Mapping APIs

By On February 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Mapping APIs have been around for ages now and all the big guns (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) have thrown their hat into the ring.  You can even get a Google [...]

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A Career Using JavaScript

By On June 30, 2005 · 1 Comment

Since most of the hits to my site will probably be following a search for either “Leggetter” or “JavaScript” I thought that I had best post something about the latter of these topics.

My knowledge of JavaScript has been gained by working for companies that have used Web Technologies in their products. My first job [...]

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