CirruxCache: Overview of a CDN-like killer application
Monday, November 23 2009
While shad already wrote a post presenting CirruxCache ideas, then announced its release as open-source, I thought I would shoot as well (more concepts, less technicalities :-)), in order to give to what I think is a...
Why is Flash so bad?
Saturday, November 7 2009
Well, maybe you weren't aware, but Flash is bad. Actually, it's worth than that, it's evil. Pure, unaltered, total evil. :-) Indeed, it's so totally ultimately evil that you can't even spell the name if you're drinking a...
IE8 XSS Protection, part 2
Friday, November 6 2009
Paul twitted a former entry of this blog about the IE8 XSS filter, subsequently attracting reactions on this otherwise very quiet blog :-). As the post in question was a typical trollish rant of me, in the usual mood...
Javascript mind tricks: How I hung myself with... the scope chain using function declarations and "with" statements
Wednesday, September 9 2009
While it's no mystery that writing portable code for the web is rather a painful task, professional javascript developers tend to blame (with good reasons) browsers' makers deceitful DOM implementations and usually bash...
ActionScript bug: XMLList and switch statements
Thursday, March 4 2010
I just ran into a disturbing bug today: declaring and assigning an XMLList in one line inside a switch statement fails. The best available description is here - note that enclosing the content of the...
Adobe developer around? Help wanted!
Wednesday, March 3 2010
I'm struggling with a very nasty performance issue. It appears to be due to calls (from javascript) to methods exposed through the ExternalInterface.addCallback ActionScript method. Well, numerous...
Ghost-DOM, Part 1: A subjective journey into XML DOM support on the web (a.k.a. "phjear!")
Tuesday, March 2 2010
For about a year now, I have been intermittently working on our browser's scripting support (that is "Javascript scripting support in markup documents rendered by an ActionScript...
R.I.P. IE6
Tuesday, March 2 2010
I've been pondering this for a while (well, for almost ten years, to be quite honest). This month, aggregated stats for all our users (inc. b2b) show IE6 dropped below 7%. Google having dropped (or...
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