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A note on JSONP & misconceptions of Cross Origin AJAX

Web developers who have worked on accessing APIs using JavaScript would be very much familiar with the term “JSONP”. Many web devs whom I have met offline or in online discussion forums seem to have some misconceptions about JSONP. Below are some of the basic & common definitions whi... [More]

What web devs should know about HTTP ”Referer” header

Every HTTP request has a set of Request Headers which carry pieces of useful information from the client to the server. One such request header is the "Referer" header, which contains address of the previous page from which the current page was requested. E.g., If you search for "HTML5" on google a... [More]

Why web devs should get excited about IE9!

A more beautiful web was launched few days back! After several platform previews, beta build, release candidate build, community feedback and rigorous testing, the final (RTM) version of Internet Explorer-9 has hit the market. On the first day of its release (Mar 14, 2011) itself IE9 saw 2.35 millio... [More]