In my daily work, I often need to test our application on actual devices that will access it, especially devices like iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone. A great tool for inspecting what is being requested is named Fiddler. Fiddler allows you to monitor and follow traffic between a device and a server, including your […]
5 JavaScript assumptions that stole my time
November 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Through my career, I have come to the realization that “assumptions” is in itself an area with a lot of depth. As software developers, we constantly make assumptions about our own and other people’s code not to mention the languages and tools we work with. When debugging we are required to challenge these assumptions, but […]
Transitionend will not fire with transition duration zero
September 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The CSS transition event ‘transitionend’ will not be fired if the ‘transition-duration’ applied to an element is zero. This might be very logical in the sense that “how can a transition end if it never begins?”. Still this can pose a problem. example: Let’s say you have a list of 40 horizontally aligned images. We […]
Avoiding cross-site scripting issues with iframes
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
At iPaper we often have clients who want to iframe our catalogs as well as interact with these. But when working with iframes, you will run into cross-site scripting limitations if both the parent and child page do not have the same origin. By “same origin”, we mean that these pages have the same protocol […]
Programmatically opening a new tab/window on Mobile Safari
May 15, 2012 by 15 Comments
On iOS devices using mobile safari your can easily navigate the user to another website or page using ordinary links and the location object. However, if you want to programmatically open a new tab or window then this is not easily done. Sure, if the method of navigation is a link that a user clicks […]