Javascript memory leaks
It’s been a while since I last posted. Partly because I haven’t seen anything super interesting and partly because I’ve been heads-down on something super-duper secret. I’ll post on it when I’m good...
View ArticleScreencast on Diagnosing Memory Leaks in IE
via Ajaxian: this is a somewhat old post, but this short (3min) screencast was useful in my on-going memory leak quest. Just watching it I better understand the problem and realize that previous code...
View ArticleMemory leaks and Moo.fx
Continuing in my efforts to make my code stop leaking (fun!), I’ve been working on a popup handler I wrote recently (which I plan to post and share as soon as, you know, it doesn’t leak). This popup...
View ArticleAha! Memory leak fixed; a summary
Ok. So in my previous posts I talked a lot about various ways to detect javascript leaks, what often causes them, etc. I have to libraries that are leaking, both of which use Objects that are...
View ArticleIE7 css changes
Brandon S. writes: The first release candidate of IE version 7 came out today… And then on ajaxian: The IE Team has posted more details on the IE7 CSS changes so we can all get prepared: We are...
View ArticleNo more IE background flicker
Fantastic! Via ajaxian (of course): Have you been bugged by IE background flicker? Cristi Balan talked about the issue and the solution: html { filter:...
View ArticleBeware: object = object has a pitfall
So I spent an entire day discovering a quirk about javascript that I must now share. In a previous post on creating default settings for classes/objects I discussed the following technique: var Widget...
View ArticleIE and “Operation Aborted”
Internet Explorer‘s behavior sometimes really, really makes me angry. We recently rolled out a copy of our javascript libraries after much testing and, a few hours later, discovered a page on our site...
View ArticleMSFT Fixes Memory Leaks in IE6
Hell must have frozen over or something. I don’t know if this just fixes certain kinds of leaks or all of them; explicit circular references in your code should still be avoided. Xopus, via Snook: At...
View ArticleDragging and IE7
So I got an email today from someone having issues with dragging things in IE7. They even hit my example in the wikitorial for resizing things and reproduced their trouble. The issue showed up as they...
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