The ZCS web client recently underwent a significant amount of change in order to load Javascript code as needed, rather than loading all of it on initial login. Those changes included the development of a package system, and a lot of shuffling around of client code over the course of about two months. The results […]
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Declared Javascript Functions – Odd Parsing Behavior in IE
A function declared in a conditional block that evaluates to false gets defined in IE, but not in Firefox. That is a problem if you are trying to use an ‘ifdef’ or ‘require_once’ mechanism for defining functions. However, if the function is defined via assignment, the reference is not created, which is what you’d expect. […]
Keyboard Shortcuts
ZCS 4.5 contains several significant enhancements to keyboard navigation: First, shortcuts are now defined in properties files. Second, you can create numeric aliases for folders, tags, and saved searches, which you can then use in shortcuts. Third, there is now a page within Preferences that describes all available shortcuts. [This post is a higher-level followup […]
The Ajax Experience, Oct 23-25, Boston, MA
Below are random thoughts on three days in Boston at The Ajax Experience. I gave a talk titled Ajax in the Enterprise. … AOL was giving away T-shirts by the hundreds, in solid, bright colors with words like “Geek” or “2.0” on them. Some conferencegoers walked away with several, which wasn’t discouraged – there seemed […]