Do Sync Calls Freeze Browsers?

January 28 2007

In a recent blog entry, "The Hardware of Tomorrow Versus the Platform of Tomorrow", Joe Walker raised some important Ajax issues. He talks about the increasing multiprocessing capabilities of today's hardware, and web browsers' inability to take full advantage... read more

What I Didn't Know About XHR

October 15 2006

Years ago, I worked in a small group that occasionally needed technical information from a second group. I was young and naive, and believed that if a person said "yes, the proper setting for the frobnitz is 34.128" then... read more