This article discusses some experimental browser features from several talks at Fronteers 2011. Since these are experimental features it doesn't work predictably across all browsers. Try Firefox 10+ or Chrome 17+ to see it the way I intended it to work.
This is the first in - what I hope will be - a series of articles on the useful information I received from visiting the Fronteers 2011 conference in Amsterdam last October. Like my articles of last year's conference, I will not give a talk-by-talk summary, but rather pick out the subjects that interest me most and expand on those subjects, while referring to the original talks to give credits due.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: This is the life! Struggling for days with some obscure IE bug!
Ahhh, this is the life: struggling for days with some obscure IE bug.
I have an onchange attribute with a jQuery AJAX call on a HTML dropdown that gives strange errors. But only in IE (8, didn't try it in other versions). When replacing the AJAX call with an alert, like so:
<select onchange="alert('onchange');">...</select>
it becomes clear that the onchange is triggered twice. This was also confirmed in the IE Developer Tools window, but I can't use that to debug further.
Before I dive into some spectacular features of CSS3, let me say something about CSS attributes.
You can ask anyone that I used to be quite sceptical on building sites that depend on the use of JavaScript. Time has not stood still however.
This is a transcription of a presentation I held recently concerning my visit to the Fronteers 2010 conference.