In my first Ajax and REST article, I talked about how the Ajax web programming style and the REST architectural style work well together. While this is true in theory, there are quite a few technical limitations of browsers’ XmlHttpRequest implementations that make it challenging to take advantage of some very basic HTTP capabilities. [...]
This video must be seen to be believed.
From the poster’s description:
Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys.
Via Josh.
Related to yesterday’s post, I just caught up on the comments to Peter Gurevich’s (MS IE Performance PM) guidance to avoid using closures in IE. Matt Kruse had a perfect, concise response which I feel compelled to quote here verbatim:
Closures don’t cause memory leaks.
Browsers that have garbage collection bugs (IE6) and continue to retain [...]
Peter Gurevich, Performance Product Manager for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, just wrote the third part of a blog series on improving the performance of Javascript execution within IE. Peter’s trying hard to help developers, but he’s got a thankless job since many of the problems are the result of not so much [...]