Supersonic Feet

One of the most simple uses for AJAX is to monitor form input and then let the user know whether what they've entered is likely to be acceptable/available (e.g. choosing a username at signup). Even so, there are ways to do it well and I just found one. I followed a link from the news on ...

Something I check on the status of now and then is the ability to have a nice upload progress bar for uploads via the browser. Sean Treadway's initial example looked great but required special server setup. Support was added to Mongrel recently, but I never got around to properly investigating as there was no documentation of ...

My previous post mentioned FireBug and how handy it is in tracking/debugging AJAX requests and code. This was particularly important as the problem I'm having is with Sortable lists (in tree form) and child elements not being serialized when they're added via AJAX. To explain a bit further, I'm using the technique to list the pages ...

I spent part of my weekend doing a bit more work on my super-semi-secret Rails CMS, especially on part of the admin area that involved some nice AJAX effects that of course caused more trouble than is immediately worth it. One of the main problems is that it's very awkward to debug AJAX code without writing ...

As part of my work at Net Effects, since Christmas last year I've been working on a new online shopping system wherever other client work allows. For a good few years, Net Effects have run an online shopping site called UK Shopability but when I joined the company last year they had already started getting a ...