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by spjwebster 15y ago
It was an assumption I made in my reply (now corrected) but it doesn't matter; even without removing the node from the DOM there's a memory leak in IE4-6, one that persists until the browser is terminated. In the other cases, there's no mem
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by spjwebster 15y ago
In every browser except IE4-7, removing the DOM node from the document would result in the entire lot getting garbage collected. This is garbage collection collecting garbage. However, in IE4-7 the JS garbage collector isn't responsible for
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Indeed. Also, a slightly more succinct fix for IE6/7 would be: function foo(element, a, b) { element.onclick = function() { /* uses a and b */ }; element = null; // avoid memory leak } The closure contains a reference to fo
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Since we're on the subject of alcoholic beverages that taste better than your average beer, I'm honour-bound by my West Country upbringing to suggest some decent quality cider. I'm talking about Henney's Frome Valley, Weston's Organic, or (
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by spjwebster 15y ago
To activate teh hidden URL bar, users will also have to right-click a tab and select "Hide the toolbar" [sic] The sources quoted in this article in no way support the conclusion present in the title. As phlux said, other browsers have ena
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IPv6 Will Slow You Down (DNS) « Mike's Lookout(belshe.com)
3 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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URL Fragments and Redirects(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Modernizr classes are best used in the `.no-feature` case, where you do something like use background images or another clever CSS use to mimic the feature or handle the fallback situation. Switching from progressive enhancement (applying
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by spjwebster 15y ago
It's the same link as posted on the book author's buy page ( http://portswigger.net/wahh/buy.html ) so I'd imagine the parent just copy/pasted it here.
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Back in the day, when processing payments for online transactions cost the earth and pre-auth was but a twinkle in the eye of the bank API developers, knowledge of the Luhn algorithm allowed one to test services via their free trials withou
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by spjwebster 15y ago
For a fictional, tripped-out exploration of the various levels of infinity, try Rudy Rucker's White Light: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Light_(novel) I picked this up at a end of line book shop when I was 13 or 14, along with a bunc
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by spjwebster 15y ago
This is a common misconception. In fact, HTTP Live Streaming as proposed by Apple has nothing to do with chunked encoding. The former splits the video into multiple "chunk" files, using an m3u file as a playlist. Stream variants are support
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by spjwebster 15y ago
My take on this is that there's a little part of my brain that wants (nay, needs) to be distracted so that I can actually get on with working. It can be a TV in the next room, a movie or video game soundtrack pumping in my headphones, or a
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by spjwebster 16y ago
As a long-time TextMate user I hate to say it, but the TextMate 2 saga is a modern-day poster child for why the "throw it all out and start again, it'll be done when it's done" model of refactoring is rarely a good idea. Users want those "i
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by spjwebster 16y ago
I didn't say it was shady or even controversial, just that it isn't as good a deal as it seems. I had a whole "jumping from the fire back into the frying pan" analogy lined up, but couldn't make a snappy title out of it.
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by spjwebster 16y ago
In the same (not so) alternate universe where Microsoft offer you the choice of a host of browsers when you first launch IE? And just because it's the logical thing for them to do, it doesn't mean it's a good idea for our industry.
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by spjwebster 16y ago
Now multiply that 10 minutes by number of scripts, utilities, libraries and applications in the world that handle URLs, and you'll be somewhere close to the magnitude of effort required to work around these broken URLs.
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HTML5 link prefetching severely broken in Chrome(statichtml.com)
4 points by spjwebster 16y ago|0 comments