If you have worked with Prototype and used its really cool Ajax features you might have noticed one downside to it: It will only work in Internet Explorer 6 if ActiveX is enabled. This might seem neglible now that IE7 is spreading - but many businesses and also many other surfers still use IE6 (and will for some time), and for security reasons ActiveX is turned off in many cases. Yet there is a solution to still use Ajax.
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In 2005 when Google implemented Google Suggest, Ajax took off. Every web developer was trying to duplicate what Google accomplished. Its now 2008 and there are tons of ways to accomplish Google Suggest. Below is a list of 10 Auto Complete Scripts with various frameworks. The list below is in no particular order.
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After learning a few programing languages it gets hard remembering all of the functions and properties that programing languages come with. Below is a list of Cheat sheets to make your coding experience much easier and faster. The list is categorized by languages.
ActionScript
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Beneath the peppy front ends of many of todays Rich Internet Applications lies a dark flaw that if left unchecked can bring a site down to it’s knees. For the past few years many designers and developers have been adding AJAX and Javascript functionality to there websites. Many of these websites suffer from threats such as, cross site scripting (also known as XSS), cross-site request forgery (XSRF), and several other well know exploits. Maybe your using one of the popular libraries such as, Prototype and Script.aculo.us, or Dojo and think You’re safe. Think again. Unless you’ve implemented security fixes you may be vulnerable to several types of attacks. The same goes for blog plugins, popular open source applications, and of-course the plethora of free Javascript and AJAX add-ons available at free script websites. If you want to protect yourself, please read on.
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