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Web 3.0

This morning before going to work I had a little chat with a friend of mine.

me:
morning
what’s your opinion about javascript?

me:
hmm ok you’re on the same line as sans
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2457&rss

me:
i am “discovering” javascript the last months
(i know, 10 years late)
i think it rocks.
makes me totally reconsider the way webpages could work
building a part now where ppl can make teams, by drag and dropping members
without a single page refresh.

me:
yh i heard the 3.0 for the first time this week
what’s 3.0 btw?
no internet? borg?

me @ 07:15
like 2.0 is
gmta, rofl

Update
Another friend pointed me (after reading the above> to this userfriendly cartoon…

Dashcode

Apple released a public beta of Dashcode to ADC members (including the free accounts). I have to say I am deeply impressed.
It has still some quirks, but it is stable and has stunning features.

I started this week to play around with it and I can assure you it’s fun.
Implementing a Scrollarea gave some problems for me tho.
(I admit, has a lot to do with my JS n00bness…but hey…)

If you you update the content of your scrollarea, don’t forget to refresh it…

example:

if (logstatus == 0) {
		loginhoud = logcall.outputString;
		content.innerHTML = loginhoud;
		document.getElementById("scrollArea").object.refresh();
	}
	else {
		content.innerHTML = "Problem fetching server data...";
	}

I think this is missing in the documentation…(yup, reporting it to Apple as well).

AJAX with Safari

Mental note to myself:

When making a POST request with XMLHttprequest and Safari(v2.0.4), always generate some content for the browser.

If not, the status will always be undefined.
example:

if (!$mysqli->query($insert)) {
  trigger_error("error writing data: ".$insert);
  exit;
}
else {
  echo "0";
}

This costed me some hours pulling my hair….
The following javascript works like a charm when you return a “0″ at the end of the php file called with POST. If you don’t return anything, Safari will decide that the HTTP headers are undefined and thus call the error handler.

KwAjax.ContentLoader.onReadyState=function(){
  var req=this.req;
  var ready=req.readyState;
  if (ready==KwAjax.READY_STATE_COMPLETE){
      var httpStatus=req.status;
      if (httpStatus == 200 || httpStatus == 0) {
        this.onload.call(this);
      }
      else {
        this.onerror.call(this);
      }
  }
}