Out of memory at line: 56
This is an error that I have started to see a lot in the last few weeks. First, it was with Piwik and latterly with WordPress.com Stats. For the record, I have never seen it on up to date systems but always with IE6 and at page unloading time. The CPU usage hits 100% before [...]
Self-hosted web analytics tracking
It amazes me now to think how little tracking I used to do on my various web “experiments” only a few short years ago. However, there was a time when a mere web counter, perhaps displayed on web pages themselves, was enough to yield some level of satisfaction, or dissatisfaction in many a case. Things [...]
JavaScript: write it yourself or use a library?
I must admit that I have never been a great fan of JavaScript. For one thing, its need to interact with browser objects places you at the mercy of the purveyors of such pieces of software. Debugging is another fine art that can seem opaque to the the uninitiated since the amount and quality of [...]
The dangers of overriding JavaScript onload event handlers
I gave myself a right old fright while tinkering with my hillwalking and photo gallery website. The problem stemmed from my use of window.onload to set up behaviours for web pages in a visitor information directory on the site. A lapse of concentration allowed me to associate an onload event handler with the body tags [...]
Using external JavaScript files? Just don’t load them at the bottom of the page…
Looking through Google Analytics for my websites, I have always been struck by the lack of IE7 uptake seemingly apparent from the statistics. However, I recently discovered that there may be a reason for this. I use the Ultimate GA plugin with my WordPress blogs and that adds the JavaScript code block near the bottom [...]
An inappropriate use of JavaScript
I have seen a web application that displays thousands of records in a scrollable table (please bear with me, there is a very good reason for this). from the appearance of the table, it would be reasonable to assume that the table is generated by the server and output directly to the screen but this [...]
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