Securing your JSON
A week ago Joe Walker posted a note on the insecurity of JSON. I’m using JSON for almost anything so I was shocked a bit by his findings.
A week ago Joe Walker posted a note on the insecurity of JSON. I’m using JSON for almost anything so I was shocked a bit by his findings.
A new version of Plotr is out: version 0.1.4. A lot users asked me to implement a method that parses a table and plot a chart from the parsed data. So today I added it and it seems to work quite well.
While I’m a great fan of Javascript Libraries like Prototype and Mootools, I’m less happy with their iterators. Iterating through a large array just takes ages using Array.each(). I think the most annoying thing with Javascript is that it freezes the browser while it’s being processed.
A few days ago someone mailed me how I made the ’search’ and ‘about’ tabs that appear on every page on solutoire.com. In this post I’ll explain some techniques like ‘height transitions’ and ‘class toggles’. Sounds pretty hard but you’ll see it’s quite easy. You can see the result at example page 2.
I haven’t seen much tutorials around explaining using JSON with mootools, so I decided to write one. A year ago I always thought JSON’s a hard to understand way to have your client apps communicate with a server. Well, by using mootools it’s a breeze. If you don’t know what JSON is, check out json.org. Json.org says the following about JSON:
I haven’t updated ajax.solutoire.com for a while, but lately I had some time to work on it. So I rewrote the page from scratch. It’s more lightweight than before. I also added like 100 new resources. I’ll promise to keep it more up-to-date now… Please take a visit and see it yourself.
Need a good javascript/ajax editor with code completion and support for several popular frameworks? Give aptana a try!
Dr. Nix Williams wrote a nice article on how to embed your widgets on another site using XSS.
Back in the days when I used moofx I wrote a tutorial about horizontal and vertical accordions. Now moofx is part of the mootools framework so it’s time for a new tutorial.
This script is very old and is likely not to work with the current version of Mootools!
When the large ‘A’ is pressed the font-size increases a little. The smaller ‘A’ resizes the font to it’s original size. It’s a piece of eyecandy and it’s very effective for websites having small font-sizes. I checked how they implemented this function and I found they where using their ‘old’ moo.fx.