Jon Wolski

Recent Blog Comments By Jon Wolski

• Using Four-Sided Positioning In CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

  Posted on Sep 4, 2011 at 5:02 PM

  Not to denigrate your post, but I just remembered where I first saw this. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/conflictingabsolutepositions/ for what it's worth. There's a workaround for getting IE <7 to work.... read more »

• Understanding The Basic Authentication Request-Response Life Cycle

  Posted on Mar 15, 2011 at 10:21 PM

  @Russ, good point. The CGI defines a "REMOTE_USER" when authentication has been done through HTTP. Apache or IIS should pass (CGI.)REMOTE_USER to ColdFusion (i.e. the "interface" part of the common gateway interface) allowing you to move authentication to a layer beneath your C... read more »

• Exploring Javascript's parseInt() And parseFloat() Functions

  Posted on Sep 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM

  The omitted radix bit us a while back with debit card expiration data validation. It worked for every month except August and September ("08", "09") where the leading zero created octal literals and the "8" and "9" were treated as invalid characters. (This is the same behavior as C's atoi) These n... read more »

• The Content Of This Document Process Takes More Than 60000 Milliseconds To Process

  Posted on Jun 23, 2010 at 11:38 PM

  Could you defer the processing by sending it to an asynchronous gateway?... read more »

• Typing High Ascii Values On A Standard Keyboard

  Posted on Jun 7, 2010 at 11:49 PM

  I worked on a site for an event in Cancún (alt+0250) with other verbiage en español (alt+0241). It's amazing all the high-ASCII codes you wind up memorizing if you type them enough times. (I'd use the easy-to-remember HTML entities, ú and ñ, but my CMS encodes what I type.)... read more »

• Is Simulating User-Input Events With jQuery Ever A Good Idea?

  Posted on Jan 30, 2010 at 6:31 PM

  I agree; simulating user input to change the 'core' is not optimal. In MVC parlance, this would be a dependency of the model on the view. You should be able to invoke model behavior without use of the view. The view should observe the model's state-change and adjust itself accordingly.... read more »

• Delaying ColdFusion Session Persistence Until User Logs In

  Posted on Jan 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM

  Could the "path" part of a cookie solve this problem? If we're talking about storing some token in the cookie that limits its use to a particular app, that seems like what the path was created for.... read more »