Ajax

11 Dec 2008

Please upgrade your Flash Player to install ClippyML

Summary: ClippyML is a simple web browser that uses the system clipboard instead of URLs. Simply paste some text into it to see it displayed as HTML.

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ClippyML: your friendly neighborhood copy-and-paste browser for HTML snippets

4 Jul 2008

When you're doing Ajax-based validation on a text input control, you really don't want your data calls firing off at every keyup event as this will put unnecessary load on your server. Instead, the thing to do is to wait a little while after the user's last key release to see if she's stopped typing before firing off a request.

I'm sure that there are hundreds of code snippets lying about for doing just this, and that JQuery probably already has something built in or a plugin for it, but a quick Google search didn't turn up anything for me so here I am, sharing my simple solution for delayed Ajax validation in JavaScript.

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Delaying Ajax-based validation triggers