overthinkings
of Ruben Daniels
Archive for February, 2007
February 24, 2007 at 7:24 pm · Filed under Tech, Javeline
So, my article got posted on Ajaxian :). I got 2 questions from Rui Lopes:
“This is really an excellent job! I read the post stating the library sizes - 12.2kb for XPath and 4.6kb for XSLT - these sizes are just plain sick.
Two questions: support for other browsers? It should be great to have a standard way to perform XPath and apply XSLT without tinkering between each browser’s features; second, is full XSLT 1.0 supported? if not, which features aren’t supported?
Thanks for your work!”
Of course that’s great to hear! I will answer those questions here:
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February 23, 2007 at 1:04 pm · Filed under Tech, Javeline
Creating an Ajax application can be a lot of fun. Making your website or webapplication more dynamic, and seeing all that functionality coming together. However when its all done and you are happy with the result, the real trouble start. Getting the application to run on all the different browsers, Safari especially, proved to be a hard problem…
My Ajax framework (Javeline Platform) uses a lot of Xpath, and the application I was building uses many XSLT’s. To my dismay I discovered Safari to have no scripting support for Xpath and XSLT. While I was trying to execute Xpath in Internet Explorer on the HTML document I found a similar limitation. A solution had to be found.
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February 10, 2007 at 3:37 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
“We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We’ve seen the victims’ agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don’t know what causes it; we don’t really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer — and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.”
– Tom Van Vleck
more here: http://www.multicians.org/thvv/proverbs.html
