Category Archives: Javascript

The fear of Javascript Frameworks

I have always been one of those developers who like to “write my own stuff” because nothing produced by another person could ever be as good as mine! I’m sure the majority of developers out there feel the same way. But as they say with experience comes wisdom and I have come to realise that [...]
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ColdFusion 8 CFWindow caching problem

This iteration of ColdFusion is absolutely wonderful. Now anyone can AJAX and look like a DHTML guru with just a few lines of code. A previous post outlined the problem of not being able to refresh the CFWindow content. CF8 uses the EXT js library as of version 1.1.1 (I think) which by default does [...]
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ColdFusion 8 HTML CFGrid href attribute with JavaScript function

I was going crazy trying to figure out why my href in the cfgridcolumn tag was not working with the new CFGrid in html mode. Apparently the appendKey attribute of the CFGrid tag is set to TRUE by default and this forces the href attribute to be a valid url. If you change the appendKey [...]
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Refreshing a CFWindow

Recently I came across the situation where I wanted to refresh a cfwindow with a source tag that was bound to a hidden form field. When the value of the form field changed I wanted the window information to be reloaded, however since the value was being changed via javascript the onChange event was not [...]
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Stupid IE…Again!

I am hopeful that there will come a time when Microsoft’s IE team will learn that developers really need error messages that make some sense! I am working on this application that uses the Yahoo! UI library and in particular the menu widget. It works fine on Firefox and on IE on my local network [...]
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