All modern browser – ecxept IE – support the “DOMContentLoaded” event. Necessary hacks for IE slow down the start of jQuery.ready() on IE, which already has the slowest JavaScript engine of all browsers. See a way to speedup the exection of jQuery.ready() on IE.
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27 Sep
Nexxar now has its own URL shortener: nxr.me
Recently we put up our own URL shortening service using the domain http://nxr.me. This service is not designed for commercial use as such, but will be part of our own share and bookmarking services that we provide in all our online financial reports.
1 Oct
Why WAI is better in theory than practice
The theory: desire to improve accessability Accessibility guidelines and standards like the WCAG are leading the web community in the right direction. But always keep in mind that the target audience are visually impaired people and not the standard addicts. Most people, like me and probably you, are not visually impaired, and therefore have never [...]
24 Aug
Wise man’s simple VPN
Virtual Privat Networks (VPN) are very useful. VPNs are great. They enable “road-warriors” to use your secured network services. But from a server and network administrators point of view I tell you: “Forget all those bloated VPN solutions“. Problems with well known solutions Every commercial solution I have stumbled upon in the Internet, works the [...]
8 Jul
surprise W3C has borked your XML app
Have you ever wondered why your beautiful XML application stopped working? Instead you always get the error “parsing error: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://www.w3.org….”? I guess you have never noticed that your app is constantly accessing the W3C pages for every opened XML file – neither have I. At least until [...]
16 Jun
Hosting: Flexibility is King!
The hosting of an online financial report is a key quality gate for the overall perception of your online reporting. Preconditions for engaging your users with your high end tools and online presentation range from simple high availability through useful analytic/statiscal tools up to complex security issues. If you specialise in this tiny corner of [...]
31 May
Online reports published in May
In September Google released a new application called Sidewiki. It’s a browser plug-in that allows users to comment on any website he wants to do. I would be very much interested how this quite powerful tool develops. If you have any experience with Sidewiki, please share it here!
28 Feb
Online Annual Reports published in February
In September Google released a new application called Sidewiki. It’s a browser plug-in that allows users to comment on any website he wants to do. I would be very much interested how this quite powerful tool develops. If you have any experience with Sidewiki, please share it here!
