January 16th, 2010 — 9:00am
The sixteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is an idea for a technical tool to assist everyone in getting the credit they deserve and the loyalty they can expect: a copy-paste injection script. It is the very same idea that tynt.com has “created”, but they keep the technology (how simple it may be) to themselves and have even filed for a patent.
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August 28th, 2009 — 12:55pm
Datasets are quite an un-impressive part of the HTML 5 specification. It is only accompanied by two examples, of which the first is relevant but small and the latter is (in my view) completely besides the potential of this new functionality. Datasets are in short a way to store custom values on nodes in the DOM tree. This has always been possible when working client-side through JavaScript by keeping a mapping between the nodes and the values stored, which meant that the values weren’t actually stored on the nodes, but just related to the nodes elsewhere (e.g. using jQuery.data).
With HTML 5 and the introduction of datasets, we can do something new. The main advantage and the really huge application area for datasets are, that you can include custom attributes in the serverside-rendered HTML, that the client-side script will use to enhance the browsing experience.
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