I came across a Firefox Add-On today by Matthias Tylkowski, that lets user to modify the browser view of his/her preferred web pages. For example, user can modify the appearance of cnn.com to suit his/her needs. The add-on or the web rules is a JSON-based rule language, where each rule is a JSON object. In [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: drools, javascript, json on Feb 23rd, 2010 00:00
In this article I would like to show how JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and Java servlet can be used together in a little AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) application. To give brief description to those who are not closely familiar with JSON – JSON is a lightweight syntax for representing data, which makes working with [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: ajax, java, javascript, json, servlets, xml on Sep 13th, 2009 14:00
Few days ago I was searching for a solution to the problem I’ve encountered – I needed to prevent a third party page to break out of iframe inside a web page of my web application. For people who are not closely familiar with JavaScript, the following JS snippet will make it more clear how [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: design patterns, javascript on Mar 29th, 2009 16:37
The other day I was developing small client-server application where I needed to check using Javascript on the client’s side whether active Internet connection exists, before submitting request to the server. Javascript does not allow you to do ping, and even so many websites protect against ping requests (ICMP echo), so I had to come [...]
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Posted by Alexander Zagniotov in: javascript on Jan 24th, 2009 17:26