on Friday April 11, 2008
I am really fed up with .Net Developers and their continued use of bad javascript writing practices and what appears to be a complete unwillingness to see what people are doing and recommending out there when it comes to javascript. I can understand a .net developer not having an extensive knowledge of the subject especially if they aren't using it that often. Thats another story in itself as asp.net is doing alot of the scripting for them and I'm afraid thats very often a bad thing too. What I can't understand is the guys who are writing articles day in day out on various asp.net subjects that require some scripting. In almost every case they are using outdated methods and outdated script and these are articles highlighted on the front page of asp.net? People are taking lessons from these guys effectively.
Posted in
Unobtrusive Javascript,
17 comments
on Friday March 21, 2008
Wow over a year since I last posted. Oh well. I have been working for a while on an unobtrusive solution to an issue I run into often enough. That of select boxes or dropdownlists as we call them in the .net world. Anyway with a select you have two choices for how it displays. You can specify a fixed width or you can let it grow as much as it likes. The problem with the fixed width is good old IE. It will obey your fixed width but when we click to choose it won't expand the width of the options as necessary. This is an annoyance as most of the time it's the un-selected select box we are concerned with as regards layout on the page. It won't affect the page if it expands the size of the otpions.
Posted in
ASP.NET Controls,
Unobtrusive Javascript,
211 comments
on Monday February 12, 2007
In the past I have used some great third party controls. The 2 I have needed the most have been a date picker and some kind of wysiwyg enhanced textbox. While these controls (the ones I have used anyway) tend to be excellent in general I recently decided that I didn't really need these things to be Asp.Net server controls. At the end of the day what you want is for example a date in a textbox or some html in a textarea to save to your application. So why not use straight-forward javascript widgets to do it and reduce the size of your web pages and have control on where the javascript will be.
Posted in
Custom Controls,
47 comments
on Wednesday July 19, 2006
On Friday morning I fly to Las Vegas for 3 weeks. I'm an avid poker player and the annual World Series of Poker is ongoing as we speak. I'll be there a week before it begins and to the end. I am really looking forward to this and the craic as we say in Ireland should be great with many of my fellow Irish players heading out.
Posted in
General,
0 comments
on Monday July 3, 2006
I just couldn't resist it. Particularly when nobody reads this blog anyway. So I hit a few MS sites to see how they validate. I felt pretty confident anything I tried would fail but guess how badly.
Posted in
Web Standards,
Asp.Net,
61 comments