For a recent project, I was making series of AJAX based blog widgets (blogparts). There wasn’t much of a problem except client server didn’t provide JSON-based API. Instead of messing with their web-server, I’ve decided to use their RSS feed and Google’s Feed API.
I did a small experiment using jQuery to avoid broken/404 image. This shouldn’t be used regularly but perhaps its a fail safe for some websites which I’m currently working on. Nothing new, just going over basics once again.
I made a simple utility for generating unicode range for actionscript. Since I use FD over Flash these days, I tend to use more of scripted embedding for fonts. And I just couldn’t bother to remember any of those unicode codes!
Why bother to make this? Well if its English based site, “Basic Latin” should be suitable, but when its Japanese then its a different story. I wanted to specify every unique word to limit the file size.
Thanks to jQuery. Couldn’t be any easier.
unicode range generator
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Seems options like “Japanese (All)” doesn’t work on IE6. I don’t know why but maybe loop is too big?
Just finished with Learning jQuery and moving on to next one, jQuery in Action. Since I used to be a prototype kinda guy I never had a time to learn jQuery from zero. Previous book wasn’t bad for a starter. It contained some deprecated methods at v1.3 so beware people.
I’m currently using Aptana Studio for Javascript development. I’m used to FlashDevelop’s auto-completion sooo much I noticed I’m making lotta typos. I mean debugging javascript in IE is just pain in the arse…Microsoft should learn from Firefox and Chrome SERIOUSLY.