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Category Archives: javascript

Some Experiments with Canvas Drag and Drop

I’ve been toying around with canvas tag and learning the ins and outs of Drag and Drop
I created a little proof of concept app that allows you to add markers to an image.  The meta about the markers (relative location, marker symbol, desc, color, etc) are stored in a DB on another server using JSONP [...]

Building Administration Interfaces with XUL

I’m starting to work with mozilla and XUL again. I’ll be posting that work soon, But in the meantime I found this presentation I did back in 2005. [original post] I remember that is when I first stumbled across this strange but useful XmlHTTPRequest object and wondered if it’s use would find its way to [...]

OpenQA Selenium

Selenium
is a functional/acceptance testing tool for web applications. It in in the same space as tools like

Winrunner
Quick Test Pro
Mercury TestDirector

Selenium Advantages

The core is written in javascript so it runs directly in a browser, just as real users do
Supported on OS X, Linux, and Windows
Very simple to learn and use
Open Source (Apache License 2.0)
Selenium [...]