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Restoring overridden window and document methods with archetype
Some scripts are built with the intention that they'll be used on some corporate site or personal blog - a relatively controlled environment with litt...
quirksDOMprototyperantpolyfill December 30, 2015How to fix a 1 year max cache age on a script
Today I witnessed one of the worst sights I've seen since I started developing for the web - a JavaScript file with a helluva lot of cache time. 1 ye...
cachequirks October 27, 2015Stop polluting my prototypes
I'm looking at you, Prototype.js. I write JavaScript for a living, and my company's product is delivered as a script to our clients. Once asynchronou...
compatibilityprototypequirks May 3, 2015XDomainRequest and CORS on IE9
I have a JavaScript project that makes a sizeable number of requests to the back-end using XMLHttpRequest, which I recently discovered breaks when usi...
ajaxiequirks February 16, 2015Communication between JavaScript and iOS using UIWebView
I've been powering through a 14-month iOS project and am nearing the end - much to my relief - but just like most projects, it's rife with feature-cre...
base64quirksuiwebview February 3, 2015iOS screen size & bounds normalisation
When iOS 8 came to be, Apple made some changes in how the OS returned the size and bounds of the screen. The size (width & height) returned by a comma...
mobilequirks January 11, 2015Detecting which mouse button was pressed
I recently completed a task that required dragging functionality on a web element. The element had to support dragging on the Y axis, using JavaScript...
quirks February 11, 2014IE8 Javascript: indexOf and hasOwnProperty
I'll cut to the chase on this one: IE8 has a few problems handling some Javascript features a lot of programmers, like myself, have taken for granted ...
iequirks May 28, 2013