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Stephen's JavaScript Blog December 2006 Archive

By Stephen Chapman, About.com Guide to JavaScript since 2004

Browser Detection

Saturday December 23, 2006
Browsers identify themselves to JavascriptInternet Explorer may be the most popular web browser but it is not the only one that there is. There are dozens of different browsers that ... Read More

Add to Favorites

Tuesday December 19, 2006
Use Javascript to help your visitors bookmark your page.Add a link to your page so that your visitors can bookmark it. This script substitutes a message in other web browsers ... Read More

Internet Explorer 6 DOCTYPE Bug

Saturday December 16, 2006
Microsoft sometimes use tags in ways that they shouldn't.The DOCTYPE of a web page should have no effect on how the Javascript attached to that web page functions. Microsoft however ... Read More

Internet Explorer and Objects

Friday December 15, 2006
Microsoft doesn't always get things their way.After Microsoft lost a court case, Internet Explorer has been changed so that objects in the web page (put there using the <object> or ... Read More

Identifying Internet Explorer

Thursday December 14, 2006
Internet Explorer likes to be different from real web browsers.You should normally use Feature Sensing in your Javascript code to select which code should run in which browser based on ... Read More

DOM Event Processing

Wednesday December 13, 2006
The old style event handlers are very limited in how they work. Event Listeners are far more powerful.In this eighteenth DOM tutorial we introduce the standard DOM event listeners as ... Read More

Ajax Competition

Tuesday December 12, 2006
What if you held a contest and no one turned up to compete?Some weeks ago I ran a competition to see who could create the most useful Ajax application. If ... Read More

Date Array Lookup

Friday December 8, 2006
Javascript can access array entries based on the dateOnce you have the current month and day (see "on This Day") it is relatively simple to use it to look up ... Read More
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