Klepopotamus

Loyal readers will recall that I love the ScrapBook extension for FireFox. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve researched something (a vacation, an investment, etc.) and collected data by just leaving tabs open, acquiring a mess of bookmarks, or copying and pasting into a text file. With ScrapBook, I can actually store […]

I’ve recently come upon two Ajax-like techniques that violate the letter of the Ajax law, but also make things a lot easier.
Technique #1: Forget the Callback
All of the Ajax tutorials and frameworks I’ve looked at use the callback approach. The user clicks something, an Ajax request is sent, the server does some processing, and then […]