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Stephen's JavaScript Blog June 2008 Archive

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

Art & Science of JavaScript

Monday June 30, 2008
JavaScript can do a lot more than many people realise This book has been written by seven people who know JavaScript extremely well to demonstrate some of the more advanced things ... Read More

Failsafe Remote Images

Saturday June 28, 2008
Not all browsers provide the same means for JavaScript to tell if an image has loaded If your site uses images remotely loaded from another site to display advertising (or for ... Read More

Targetting External Links to a New Window

Friday June 27, 2008
JavaScript can change link behaviour One thing a lot of people like to do with their web site is to have all of the external links open in a new window ... Read More

Dynamic Forms

Tuesday June 24, 2008
JavaScript can add complex HTML to a web page A new addition to my library of scripts that you can use on your own site is my new Form object script ... Read More

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Monday June 23, 2008
JavaScript would be a near perfect language if only it didn't have certain commands Just about everyone who has been using JavaScript for a while knows of at least one or ... Read More

You Can't Protect Your Page Content

Friday June 20, 2008
Web pages are open source and there is nothing you can do to protect the content Every so often I receive emails about my Image Protection JavaScript that places the image ... Read More

Where to put user scripts in Opera

Thursday June 19, 2008
JavaScript doesn't just run in web pages, most web browsers allow you to attach JavaScript into the browser that can then run against all or selected pages. User scripts are JavaScripts ... Read More

SquirrelFish

Tuesday June 17, 2008
Different browsers use different code to process the JavaScript - which is why JavaScript works slightly differently in different browsers. There is a new version of the JavaScript processor for ... Read More

Obsolete Browser

Tuesday June 10, 2008
JScript can test its own version number to tell which version of Internet Explorer your visitor is running Do you think Internet Explorer 6 is a browser that should no longer ... Read More

Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers

Tuesday June 3, 2008
JavaScript runs in places other than web browsers Once place where you can run JavaScript outside a web browser is in Adobe AIR. This gives you an environment where you can ... Read More
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