I run into a quite strange issue today. Basically the problem was that a javascript file was encoded using ISO-8859-1 and contained some weird characters. It worked fine in a plain HTML script tag that included the external file. However it did not work when the file was loaded using an XMLHttpRequest (MSXML has exactly [...]
XML.com has an article called Errors and AJAX where they suggest that client side errors should be reported back to the server for logging. This sounds a bit familiar to me. Me and Emil did the same thing back in 1999.
I guess it all comes back around sooner or later.
Lately, I’ve been feeling quite creative. I guess I can thank World of Warcraft for that. Or actually the other way around. I got out of my addiction after a week in USA and I decided that I would not touch it again.
Lately I’ve been looking at simpler ways to output data received from an [...]