I was sent a copy of Thau’s new book “The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages” to review and I wrecked my brain for several weeks as to what to write about it. I showed the book to other colleagues and bloggers who’ve been approached by the publisher to […]

I am proud as punch to announce that I am going to be in Singapore holding a workshop on DOMscripting and Ajax for Pebbleroad on 28th and 29th of March. This is the rough schedule: Day 1 Understand the nature and basic principles of JavaScript Avoid making mistakes of the past and prepare for future […]

Nearly every modern browser supports the console.log() command to print out data during debugging without having to resort to alert() and pressing enter until you go nuts. Of course Microsoft Internet Explorer does not, which is why I found myself getting false error reports from collegues when sending them code to check out (I naturally […]

Q: I need to know when a user has changed the content of a form field before submitting the form. It’d be easy in PHP to compare the value stored in the DB with the $_POST value of the field, but this needs to happen in JavaScript. A: There are several ways to do that. […]

Q: I keep having problems with a list showing up as two lines of instead of one (there is a big gap between the items) in Internet Explorer 6. I don’t know what is causing it as there is nothing inside the list items but text. A: The problem is that you most likely have […]