A year ago I mentioned that cross origin Ajax requests were coming and then got backed out of the last version of Firefox Well they are back now and they do work in Firefox 3.5 IE 8 landed similiar functionality using something called an XDR (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd573303(VS.85).aspx) Of course the big question is still, is this [...]

You can always make your Web site better. I guess I should call that King’s Law since my occasional co-hort Andy King certainly believes it to be true.  To support this belief just this week Andy released an exciting new book published by O’Reilly entitled Web Site Optimization.

Now I am not just plugging for [...]

In the past few months there has been quite a stir about the latest browser releases (Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, and of course IE8) and what new features they bring.  One of the most interesting new features found in the two more popular browsers is the ability for Ajax calls to break the same origin [...]

Yes it is out! My new book Ajax: The Complete Reference (AjaxTCR) is available for purchase at Amazon and elsewhere. That clearly counts as the advertising, so now to the truth.
The truth is most certainly this isn’t a complete reference. I’d need about 10,000 pages to pull that off plus major people [...]

If you spend a little time looking into the online literature for the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploit, you might get the impression that Web 2.0 has opened up an appalling can of security worms. In some ways this is true, but in other respects what we are seeing [...]

Everyone knows about the sharp trade-off that exists when using SSL: You get the security of an encrypted connection but you pay for it with a significant performance hit. Servers work much harder, and pages load much slower. SSL processing consumes about 70% of HTTPS transaction time

So if you know a bit about Ajax you might assume that there is no specification for the technology. That makes sense because Ajax is more of a term for a way of coding a JavaScript application – asynchronous communications often with XML as a payload though not always. Well it turns out [...]

We will no doubt be having a lot to say about Web 2.0 technologies in this space so we thought we might begin with a brief glossary of common terms associated with these technologies. As is typical for a burgeoning area of software development, there is already a pretty extensive family of terms to [...]

Yes it is true, I have been busy writing another book for the past few months. Actually I am always writing a book it would seem, but this is not a new edition nor is it one of my long running book projects for my undergraduate courses. This is a real soon-to-be-published collection [...]