Tech Thought

Tech tips, hints, and general musings. PHP, Perl, Mysql, Javascript, AJAX, JSON, Linux, Mac OSX

Entries for June 2nd, 2008

Centralized storage of prototype.js with Google AJAX Libraries API

Google has just announced that it now provides a free, hosted copy of a many common AJAX Javascript libraries through Google AJAX Libraries API.  This has huge implications for speed and caching for users hitting sites which utilise these libraries: Google automatically serves them up in Gzip format (if your browser supports this) Caching is [...]

Leave a Comment

Testing Different IE Versions in the Same Window: IETester

Finally, a solution to every designer/developer nightmare – developing for different versions of IE.  DebugBar provides you with the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as your own version of IE in the same process! Check it out at here!

Leave a Comment

MagpieRSS strange characters in feed problem

Recently we had a problem with our RSS feed appearing strangely on our homepage.  We were using MagpieRSS to read our RSS feed, however apostrophes and other characters appeared scrambled. After much reading and googling, it turned out that our page wasn’t using UTF-8 as its encoding method – and our feed was.  So the [...]

Leave a Comment