20 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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XMLHttpRequest

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Rounded Corners 360 - Call me null

By Assaf of Labnotes 1 year ago.
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…Brandon Rhodes :

Kids will ask "What did the XML in XMLHttpRequest stand for?" and we'll answer "Just read it as a censored ‘ FML'—long story."

1. WSDL 2. Hilary ensues :

"We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup app when his last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now)."

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jQuery: New Default

By fxn of Riding Rails - home 2 years ago.
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…helper is a simple convenience method that sets the X REQUESTED WITH header to " XMLHttpRequest". If the test request has no Accept header, a fixed value of [Mime::JS, Mime::HTML, Mime::XML, 'text/xml', Mime::ALL].join(', ')

serves as default.

The Accept header in Prototype calls corresponds to that value, but in jQuery it depends on the dataType attribute. Also, in other JavaScript libraries the Accept header may behave differently. What to do with …

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AjaxRecorder: is this insane?

On giant robots smashing into other giant robots over 2 years ago.
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…they're not impossible to capture if we're willing to use implementation details such as XMLHttpRequest as a proxy for those factors, then tie that implementation to our user experience intent using language in our Cucumber steps: Then the comment on "Ford" should have been posted quickly, without reloading the page, and with brief visual feedback

"without reloading the page" would be implemented using our AjaxReloader , "posted quickly" could be …

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How we got here: Web App Stores

By Max of occasionally useful over 2 years ago.
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…industry, showed us all two things: 1) Javascript can be used to be, well, useful, and 2) XmlHTTPRequest is incredibly useful (and iframes, bleh). This begins the trend of taking web applications seriously as a replacement for certain desktop applications.

Fast forward a few years -- there are now many many Web 2.0 apps and/or RIA apps. So many, in fact, that there is a veritable glut of apps. We have a new discoverability problem, but not because we can't find the apps we need, …

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Living on the edge of the WebSocket protocol

By makoto of Bamboo Blog almost 3 years ago.
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…Sec-| cannot be set by an attacker from a Web browser, even when using | XMLHttpRequest|.

NOTE: I am not sure why Sec- cannot be set from a Web browser (unless Sec- is a reserved word for HTTP protocol). If you know any info, please comment.

#3 and #4 are used for opening handshake and I will explain in next section.

From Server to Client

Old HTTP/1.1 101 Web Socket Protocol Handshake Upgrade: WebSocket Connection: Upgrade WebSocket-Origin: http://example.com WebSocket-Location: …

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Unobtrusive JavaScript in Rails 3

By Simone Carletti of Simone Carletti's Blog almost 3 years ago.
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has not finished loading. :success : Called when the XMLHttpRequest is completed, and the HTTP status code is in

the 2XX range. :failure : Called when the XMLHttpRequest is completed, and the HTTP status code is

not in the 2XX range. :complete : Called when the XMLHttpRequest is complete (fires after success/failure if

they are present).

You can further refine :success and :failure by adding additional callbacks for specific status codes.

Example: # Generates: <a href="#" …

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.nodeName Case Sensitivity

By John Resig of John Resig over 3 years ago.
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var xhr = window. XMLHttpRequest ?

new XMLHttpRequest ( ) :

new ActiveXObject ( " Microsoft.XMLHTTP" ) ;

xhr. open ( " GET" , "test.xml" , false ) ;

xhr. send ( null ) ;

var xml = xhr. responseXML ;

XML

Test the elements in the XML document directly (should be case sensitive).

runTest ( " XML" , function ( ) {

return xml. documentElement . childNodes ;

} ) ;

XML createElement

Same as the HTML…

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Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer

By John Resig of John Resig over 3 years ago.
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dynaTrace Ajax

Digging in to the execution of an XMLHttpRequest on a page we get to see some of the full execution stack trace - and this is where the tools starts to become really interesting. The tool is capable of tracing across JavaScript, through the native XMLHttpRequest, through the network request, and back to the handler that fires when the request is done. This is phenomenal. This is the first tool that I've seen that's capable of tracing through native methods to give you a picture of …

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Tweaking Rails app with jQuery, part I

By drogus of Piotr Sarnacki almost 5 years ago.
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As all children know, XMLHttpRequest can't upload files. What a shame... our new tweaked mugshots app is all about uploading files. Although you can't do it with XHR , there is a way to imitate it. It is obtained by creating an iframe and uploading files to it.

Luckily Mike Malsup has done hard work for us writing jQuery form plugin .

First, we need our form. I would place it instead "New mugshot" link. Link has id="new_mugshot_link", so this …

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Computing with JavaScript Web Workers

By John Resig of John Resig almost 4 years ago.
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…No document , getElementById , etc. (The notable exceptions are setTimeout , setInterval , and XMLHttpRequest .)

Workers don't have direct access to the 'parent' page.

With these points in mind the big question should be: How do you actually use a worker and what is it useful for?

You use a worker by communicating with it using messages. All browsers support passing in a string message ( Firefox 3.5 also supports passing in JSON-compatible objects). This message …

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