Tag Archives: javascript

Solved: IE encounters ERROR_INTERNET_INCORRECT_HANDLE_STATE when opening a popup window

Posted on December 4, 2012 by jrothmanshore

One of our engineers asked me to take a look at a bizarre problem in an application.  When accessing the application using IE8, they would click a link that opens a popup window.  Rather than the popup window loading, the … Continue reading →

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HTML Shortcut: Dynamically populate a select list drop down when it is first clicked

Posted on August 8, 2011 by jrothmanshore

e were recently making some modifications to a configuration options page.  The page was set up a type of table, where each record had its own row, and each column represented a different type of data that could be edited.  … Continue reading →

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HTML Shortcut: Dynamically switch to RTL mode based on the opener #localization #l10n

Posted on June 22, 2011 by jrothmanshore

As we were working on adapting one of our applications to support right-to-left (RTL) languages like Hebrew and Arabic, we tripped over an issue with a static HTML document. Changing a page to by RTL is pretty easy.  You can … Continue reading →

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Solved: Printing using CTRL+P stops working in IE8 on Windows 7 after modifying security settings

Posted on May 3, 2011 by jrothmanshore

Many of our customers are large, global organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees and thousands of locations.  With such a vast infrastructure, their IT organizations take great pains to keep their computers stable and secure.  While in theory only … Continue reading →

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Performance: Yes, time-taken in IIS includes network time

Posted on April 22, 2011 by jrothmanshore

I’ve written previously about many of the useful types of analysis you can perform using the time-taken field in your web logs.  However, I would be remiss for not pointing out some limitations of the data it provides. When poring … Continue reading →

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Performance Tuning: Clear hidden form variables to avoid unnecessarily large post backs #browser #html #javascript

Posted on December 17, 2010 by jrothmanshore

To create rich web applications, it is fairly common to encode data in JSON on the server and then manipulate it using javascript on the client.  For example, when creating a rich Datatable in YUI, rather than rendering the data … Continue reading →

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