Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

IE, Closures, Leaks

Posted on October 24, 2005 by James McParlane

[UPDATE] I have updated this with information gleaned from http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html on the true nature of closures and performed an experiment. Its worse than I thought. The ‘shotgun’ nature of scope closure in JavaScript means that its very easy to write leaky … Continue reading →

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More Bigpond Windows Media Center V8 Goodness

Posted on October 23, 2005 by James McParlane

Making progress on the synchronisation algorithm. Compared to last rounds effort, this round was a lot closer. I’m definitely on the right track and the algorithm is converging faster. Now able to synchronise all four feeds together Live TV, Streaming … Continue reading →

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W3C Event Emulation, Now Supports 'stopPropagation' and 'cancelBubble'

Posted on October 23, 2005 by James McParlane

My addEvent replacement now supports the full emulation of W3C standard cancelBubble and stopPropagation in event capture and bubbling mode in browsers that don’t support W3C events (IE, Opera). Here is a test case. If someone can break this and … Continue reading →

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My Entry For The QuirksMode addEvent() Recoding Contest

Posted on October 22, 2005 by James McParlane

Here is my entry for the QuirksMode addEvent() recoding contest. Its not the smallest or simplest, but this was a project that I started before the competition was announced and its main purpose is to solve a much larger problem. My … Continue reading →

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IE Memory Leaks Demystified

Posted on October 21, 2005 by James McParlane

At last a resource that describes exactly how memory leaks occur in IE, written by the only people qualified to know, Microsoft. “In the past, memory leaks haven’t posed huge problems for Web developers. Pages were kept relatively simple and … Continue reading →

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An XSLT In the Cache is Worth Two On The Server – More MetaWrap Rendering Pipeline Thoughts

Posted on October 20, 2005 by James McParlane

Good documentation is a battle between telling a memorable fable and overloading people with detail. I’ve sat down and drawn another diagram (see below) of the MetaWrap rendering pipeline as I’m still in the process of mulling over the design. … Continue reading →

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And The Winner Of The QuirksMode addEvent() Recoding Contest Is…

Posted on October 19, 2005 by James McParlane

Not me – and there is a slight twang of disappointment, but its hardly so very surprising – the competition was simply to recode addEvent, and my solution was for the entire class of event registration problems that plague all … Continue reading →

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XML XSLT XHTML JS Pipeline

Posted on October 19, 2005 by James McParlane

Someone else who is on the same wavelength but can make much better diagrams 🙂 http://particletree.com/features/4-layers-of-separation/  

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Event Ordering On Input

Posted on October 19, 2005 by James McParlane

Glad that someone has gone off and done this. http://h3h.net/2005/04/faulty-firing/ This is part of the knowledge that I need to acquire if I am ever to get the JavaScript macro recorder to work consistently. The next stage of development is to complete the … Continue reading →

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More On The MetaWrap URL Format

Posted on October 18, 2005 by James McParlane

If you have noticed the MetaWrap test server has been up and down for last few weeks. Its because I have been playing with the Apache module. Finally got the framework compiling again under Linux. Win32 Apache was easy. Getting the new version … Continue reading →

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