A note on JSONP & misconceptions of Cross Origin AJAX 18 July 2012 novogeek (0) 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]
Browser Internals: Content Isolation with Same Origin Policy-Microsoft UG Dev Day 30 June 2012 novogeek (0) Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH) has organized Developer Day at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Hyderabad this weekend. It was a half day event with very good line up of sessions and I had the opportunity to present on a very exciting topic-"Content Isolation with Same Origin Pol... [More]
What web devs should know about HTTP ”Referer” header 17 March 2012 novogeek (2) 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]
Frame navigation policies in web browsers | One big reason why you should get rid of old browsers 31 August 2011 novogeek (1) Whether you are aware or not, frames are commonly used in most of the websites we use, for various purposes such as widgets in mashups, containers for advertisements, at the least for loading arbitrary documents into web pages. To serve this purpose <iframe> is used, while <frameset> and... [More]
ECMAScript 5 'Strict mode' support in browsers. What does this mean? 25 April 2011 NovoGeek (0) If you are closely following how the web is shaping up lately, you would be thrilled, like me, looking at pace at which things are changing. There are hundreds of things happening on the new HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript front, frequently releasing browser versions and contest for speed, supporting modern... [More]
Why web devs should get excited about IE9! 18 March 2011 NovoGeek (2) 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]