Anyone using AJAX type-ahead controls under Citrix? I have been working on a customer solution using the select-widget from the dojo toolkit but it doesn’t work correctly in Internet Explorer under Citrix (you can type ahead but cannot use the arrow keys to select from the choices). Just checked script.acolou.us and their autocomplete widget doesn’t work either under Citrix either (same issue). Previously I have been using a solution I developed myself but really want to go mainstream…
Tag: ajax
AJAX and character sets
Being from a country that uses characters outside the ASCII range we are often times struggling with character set issues and today was no different. Well it was… Today I found the solution that has been eluding me for a long time.
We have been having issues with national characters in content being returned in AJAX calls for documents sent using the text/plain MIME-type (e.g. JSON). Apparently the XMLHTTPRequest used on most platforms assumes that the content it receives is in UTF-8 so if you’re having issues with encoding check the charset. Changing the character set in the servlet generating the data (Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8) and on the page (using a meta-tag) solved the issue.
Web Thumbnails
Nice blog post on how to create thumbnails of web sites using a web service. If the test script on his blog doesn’t work he might be over his daily quota so you might have to go and get your own API key to test…
Check out netvibes.com!!
Check out netvibes.com. I found the site by following a referer link from this site and I must admit that I’m very impressed. Portal-like drag’n’drop of content “portlets” and nice functionality. Could be made into a very nice startpage for ones online activities. Check it out!
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