Scrollbar not appearing in IE7 when CSS overflow auto is set

Recently when working on a JQuery based UI, I encountered an annoying IE 7 problem. I had a scrollable DIV setup with overflow:auto; configured in CSS. The scrollable DIV had a one child div which contained text. As the text grows in length the parent scrollable div should trigger a vertical scrollbar. This worked fine …

Scathing report on the state of Dojo

Just came across this post today at Jeviathon regarding "What is the future of Dojo?". Quite an interesting read and and I can understand the authors frustrations with the forums and lack of help on there, I experienced something similar last year when I posted several questions, only to never get an answer or I …

Review: High Performance Web Sites

This is a review of "High Performance Web Sites" by Steve Souders First off this book is written by someone who knows just a tad about front end client web interfaces and their performance, being the performance chief at Yahoo he has quite a bit of experience under his belt. Myself having done a fair …

Review: Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks

This is a review of "Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks" by Nate Schutta and Ryan Asleson This book was written in 2006 and is targeting client side developers who want to add Ajax to their Java backed applications. The book tends to cater more towards an audience who likely wants an overview of various Ajax …