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• Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude

  Posted on Feb 19, 2012 at 6:20 PM

  @carehart Yeah, that is a bit pedantic. I can't imagine anyone would presume that means that their code will be re-authored by cfadmin by changing a boolean value. I'm not sure how it would be read otherwise, but hopefully others will find the distinction useful.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude

  Posted on Feb 18, 2012 at 3:30 PM

  @carehart Nope, not Dave. :-) Yep, "parsed" was the wrong way to describe that. Thanks for clarifying it for others. And yeah, "Cache Template In Request" is a major improvement for CF9 and "Trusted Cache" can be very effective as long as, as you say, y... read more »

• Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude

  Posted on Nov 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM

  Just to throw some more "don't use the cfinclude method" fire. With the CF9 admin setting "Cache Template In Request" you may get old results, because as you say, the content of the file is parsed. Contrived example: <cfloop from="1" to="1... read more »

• Empty SRC And URL() Values Can Cause Duplicate Page Requests

  Posted on Aug 5, 2011 at 5:35 AM

  This knowledge is part of the Yahoo! "Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site," which should be on every webdev's reading list. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.htm... read more »

• Some Thoughts On Handling 401 Unauthorized Errors With jQuery

  Posted on Jul 18, 2011 at 5:17 AM

  Hopefully someone can provide more insight, but I use something similar to the above, but believe it is in violation of the standard. (However, I've never seen any ill consequences of it.) When sending 401, "The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.47) con... read more »

• THIS Is Just A Locally-Scoped Variable Inside Of ColdFusion User Defined Functions

  Posted on Aug 23, 2010 at 5:18 AM

  You're currently viewing This and Variables as Public vs Private. For ColdFusion I think the more accurate way to view them is as External vs Internal. The solution to your OCD is to always prefix methods of the same class with Variables; not to "fix" This. A slight error on priv... read more »

• Do Complex User Interface Modules Necessitate Complex CSS?

  Posted on Jan 9, 2010 at 10:23 PM

  @Ben For me, I think I would spend more time creating constructs to get around the use of less commonly supposed (lcs) selectors than I would searching through the css files and making sure those selectors are represented in a separate js file. Knowing the proper use of selectors and... read more »

• Do Complex User Interface Modules Necessitate Complex CSS?

  Posted on Jan 8, 2010 at 10:15 PM

  It would be possible to use the js implementation for all browsers. The two main considerations are that there may be people with javascript turned off; and the javascript will take longer to parse than the js, so it's possible to see the wrong styles and watch them be replaced as the js loads.... read more »

• Do Complex User Interface Modules Necessitate Complex CSS?

  Posted on Dec 31, 2009 at 8:46 AM

  @lola They certainly don't make it easy to understand. http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps/#Windows says that Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released 21-Apr-2008. read more »

• Do Complex User Interface Modules Necessitate Complex CSS?

  Posted on Dec 30, 2009 at 10:14 PM

  @Ben It appears from your comments that Javascript is an acceptable requirement on the site. Have you considered using child selectors in your CSS and then for IE 6 having a conditional comment script block that injects the styles using matching jQuery selectors and css method? Not the mo... read more »