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The bookmarklet I made to list out the YUI events on a page is now available as a Firebug extension. You can install the extension from the event lister page.
Please be aware however that auto-updating is not yet implemented, so if you want to keep up with changes to the extension you’ll have to subscribe […]

The Accessibility toolbar for Firefox has a feature for developers that presents a list of the event handler attributes for each element on the page. The problem is that using attributes to set events is nasty and the YUI Event library instead attaches a singleton listener to the window which isn’t shown. This main YUI […]

AJAX and AHAH are two of the corner stones of the technology for “Web 2.0″. While most implementations of AHAH are done using AJAX to make them more robust I see them as two differing models. In essence AHAH requires the minimum of client side processing whereas AJAX uses the client for processing as well […]

Simon Willison linking to a post about Google’s Latest Security Hole got me thinking.
According to the article Google allowed someone to gain control of pages on a sub-domain of google.com. Aside from the obvious dumbness of allowing that to happen (surprising given the usual calibre of their people) it raises an interesting point about cookies. […]

Well, for a while I've been trying to prove that either it is, or isn't, possible to XSS a JSON return which is wrapped in { }.
While it is well known that it is possible to exploit the return of a JavaScript array, I've been trying to establish if it is also possible with generic [...]

While I totally advocate using

Ed at work has written a really awesome post on using PHP to version JavaScript and CSS files into a single versioned include. His post Automatic merging and versioning of CSS/JS files with PHP make this all really trivial. Nice one Ed!

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One day I was bitching about the lack of a way to insert something at an arbitrary point into a list of DOM nodes. "I don't want to walk the DOM, or walk with Dinosaurs, for that matter!" said I, or something equally witty. Steve Webster sick of my whining, no doubt, suggested I write one.

So I did (with a little help from Heilmann).

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