The ramblings of web developer Beau Brownlee

Archive for June, 2008

 
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Most browsers are similar in the sense that they all have a javascript engine and a css engine that processes css code in your style sheets or inline in your html and the javascript engine typically has access to most if not all of the css properties. Browsers differ in what css properties are available to be modified in javascript. Here is a quick piece of code that creates a list of all css properties are available to the javascript engine in your browser. The list will differ depending on what browser your using.

 
Saturday, June 21st, 2008

When thinking about optimizing your web application, something to consider is javascript and css compression. There are a few good javascript and css compressors, one you can use for free online is http://www.creativyst.com/Prod/3/. However these can obfuscate your code so that it isn’t readable. Sometimes that is the goal, but for projects in which you want to keep your code readable there are other methods to keep your code smaller. (more…)

 
Friday, June 20th, 2008

There are many date add methods online. I recently needed a simple bulletproof method for dateadd and didn’t like any of the ones i found online so i figured i would actually sit down and write one ;) . Here’s what I came up with. (more…)

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