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  • Mobile

    On closing IFRAME tags

    I was debugging some obscure problem the other day. For some reason the __doPostBack JavaScript function was not defined (or “undefined” in JavaScript terms ;) ). It wouldn’t be so suspicious if I was able to view the source of the page and see the declaration of __doPostBack routine. It turned out some iframe break the whole thing. Consider the following html (notice that the iframe is in minimized form): <div>I am before the iframe</div><iframe src="http://www.telerik.com" /><div>I am after the iframe</div> In that case the second div was not rendered at all. IN ALL BROWSERS!!! First I thought it was one of “those” Internet...
  • Mobile

    Origami: the next Big Small thing

    Will Microsoft take on Apple and Palm with its all-in-one consumer/business ultra-portable device? Well, you’ve probably heard the news already - Microsoft is entering the persona-portble-cool-weired-widgets market with their own device… The device code named Origami (official name is UMPC which is spelled out like Ultra Mobile PC) is very compact all-in-one information device that is targeted as an iPod, Palm and BlackBerry competition. Origami sounds way cooler than UMPC though (I keep asking myself why the guys at MS are giving great code names like Indigo, Avalon and Origami, and the official naming is almost unpronounceable like WPF, WCF, UMPC,...
    April 21, 2006
  • Mobile

    telerik and Mono

    It all started at Microsoft PDC this year.  We met Miguel de Icaza at our booth, and we talked about running our products under Mono.  I had previously done some tests under my Linux machine at home, and it turned out that our obfuscated assemblies broke the Mono CLR.  Yes, that means crashes and abnormal process terminations.  Miguel was really kind and offered his help.  He was able to determine that our obfuscator (Xenocode) was generating invalid IL instructions in order to break possible decompilations.  Unfortunately that broke Mono too.  In fact it was not only Mono -- we had a lot of...
    November 29, 2005