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    Automating Complex JavaScript-rich Controls with Watir

    Watir is a web testing tool that allows you to automate Internet Explorer and script interactions with your web application.  It uses the COM automation interface to drive the browser.  The nicest thing about the tool is that it allows you to use Ruby to create the test scripts.  Ruby is an unobtrusive, easy to learn, fully object-oriented language whose power at abstraction building will allow you to bring your testing to a level you never previously imagined. Now, a lot of people love and use Watir, and we have been getting requests for help on scripting our web controls with Watir.  All of our controls are pretty complex beasts and require...
    April 25, 2006
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    The invisible memory leaks in MS Internet Explorer

    Oh boy, not another memory leak post!  We already got a couple here and there.JavaScript development is so frustrating at times that every little victory counts.  The seemingly memory-managed, easy-to-write script language sometimes is harder than C++, and believe me, I've had my fair share of C++, Win32  and COM development.  As if it's not enough that you have to deal with each and every browser's way of implementing the "standard", but now you have to manage and free your own memory.Memory leaks have not been a big problem most of the time.  Well, a leaked <div> or <td> here or...
    April 11, 2006
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    Playing with minimo

    With mozilla minimo recently released it will be interesting for web developers and geeks alike to mess around with it. For those not familiar with minimo it is basically mozilla’s alternative to pocket internet explorer for PDAs, smartphones and other devices that use Windows CE. And yes, it does have tabs! Here is what we can read on the official website (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/): The Minimo has been focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, small screen usablity, and porting to small consumer devices. We hope to make Minimo the browser of choice on small devices, or machines with limited system resources; taking advantage of...
    April 04, 2006
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    Glassy buttons, interrupted?

    Has the time come to challenge the top place of glassy look in today’s web notion for haute couture? What could possibly act cooler than a glassy button on your web site? Admit it, even if you never had it, at one point or another you secretly craved for one. One of those fat, professional looking glassy buttons that scream out loud style & grace and are said to sky-rocket click through rates. Everyone’s got it - for the last couple of years, web interface has been all about this glassy feel – ironically enough, with the fall of the...
    March 06, 2006
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    Adding controls to Visual Studio Toolbox

    The Problem As Rumen said, adding controls to Visual Studio toolbox can be a tedious procedure. That's why r.a.d.controls are automatically added in the toolbox during installation. This makes it easier for the developer to start using them. However there is a catch - no control is added in Visual Studio 2005... Our toolbox adding code runs without an error but ... nothing happens. Several months ago I found the following forum thread which basically said that the code used to add toolbox items in Visual Studio 2003 will simply not work in Visual Studio 2005. And it is 100% right! We decided to abandon this...
    March 01, 2006