TW Blog :: Archives for March 2005

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Relates to DOM Scripting and Firefox and Co, XForms

Just a quick whistle stop fly by. I found February fairly uninspiring in the blogging realm, with the usual regurgitation of old ideas in new guises escalating exponentially - but this may just be my lack of stimulation at the moment with considerable mundane workload in the inbox.

Nice to see XForms make an appearance in the Firefox nightlies at a time when the duel between the web forms camps heats up with the forthcoming release of Web Forms 2.0. I look forward to seeing XForms developed further in Firefox - start experimenting with XForms beyond the realm of XSmiles and FormPlayer.

Meanwhile Javascript has yet again been shunned with Joel Webber's damming article. While this appears to have raised a certain level of concern, it is a problem that was elucidated back in spring 2k4 in Richard Cornford's excellent javascript closures article. And the RAM munching truth demonstrated in Mihai Bazon's IE benchmarking tests. In script-powered applications I generally garbage clean event handlers and loose DOM references manually, but as the application gets more complex, keeping track of references becomes harder to manage. While I have only perused this briefly, Mark Wubben has come up with an interesting solution - the Event Cache script.

Beyond these, I have been enjoying a few visual memories of New Zealand these last few days via Bitflux. And just today I stumbled across another nomenclature proposed for XMLHTTPRequest and co - now we are expected to name it after a soap!!! Yes I do know my Greek mythology - just feeling a little cynical this morning. I really need to get away…

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:35:27.