At work, I needed to create a script that did several checks such as verifying disk space and CPU utilization; this script is to be run on a number of servers. We wanted to keep a daily record for historical and trending purposes. So, I created a script that performed …
I got the following error when trying to connect to my web service using NSURL: Failed with error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1000 “bad URL” My URL was a GET request and so had several parameters in it. At first, I tried to URL encode the spaces manually using %20 (you’ll have to use …
I was playing around with Wink Toolkit’s Tag Cloud control and came across an interesting issue with Chrome and the CSS3 matrix3d transform function. In order for the z coordinate to work properly in the matrix3d parameters, you’ll need to set the parent element’s -webkit-transform-style property to preserve-3d. The following example …
I went through quite a few Google searches trying to figure this out. My problem was that I needed to get the coordinate of a touch event relative to the top left corner of an element. However, the TouchEvent object doesn’t have the offsetX or offsetY, which, in contrast, the MouseEvent …
If you need to access HTML elements or Javascript code within an iFrame, here’s how to do it: var cw = document.getElementById(‘theIFrameID’).contentWindow; cw.document.body.style.backgroundColor = ‘#f00’ Have jQuery in the iFrame? You can access it this way: alert(cw.$(‘body’).html());
When trying to access your data tier, you [may] encounter the browser’s built in security feature that does not allow you to make XMLHttpRequest object requests to a different domain (see Same Origin Policy). UPDATE 10-24-2012: To get CORS working in IE8 and IE9, use XDomainRequest using the object’s onload …