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When to use form POST vs GET?

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I read a post today from Mark Kruger where he was warning against the possible side effects when using GET as a form submit method.
I think I (unintentionally) offended Mark with my comment where I asked why would anyone EVER use GET? because I pretty much always use POST so was wondering why you would […]

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The ‘coolest’ DHTML calendar

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

As web developers we are often some of the first people to see the newer techniques and tools available for use in web applications. This can be great as we can then hurry off and implement these things into our new projects.
But of course there are still millions of older sites (which will no doubt […]

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Including js files from within js files

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

I’m working on an application which stores a lot of data in the application scope. Part of the data stored is a config CFC that has a method which loads ‘external assets’ (javascript and css files etc) into the <head> of the html document via <cfhtmlhead>. I love that tag
My part in this […]

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Viewing AJAX generated source code

Monday, December 4th, 2006

When developing for the web there is often a need to view the (X)HTML source code of a page to see exactly what ColdFusion (or your server side language of choice) is generating from the server.
One of the problems you might face is when viewing the source code of an AJAX generated event. Of […]

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Reserved characters in HTML ‘id’ attribute

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Currently I’m building an app which will accept metadata from different sources, translate that into an API to dynamically build an HTML form from. Everything is going just dandy until my page stopped validating (I use tidy to validate my markup) when I got the following warning:

After some digging I discovered that the value of […]

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