Test Drive of the Google Hosted Ajax Libraries

July 07th, 2008 - 3:00PM

The recently announced Google Ajax Libraries API caught our attention because it offers some significant performance improvements if you use a popular Javascript library (e.g. JQuery, prototype, script_aculo_us, MooTools or dojo)  on your site. You can now reference these libraries at Google rather than having to host your own copy. The benefits of this approach are: The libraries are hosted on Google’s high speed global network providing fast access from most locations world wide HTTP compression minimizes the size of the download Minimized versions of the each library are available to further reduce download size The library that your site uses may already … Continue reading →

ERROR_INTERNET_INVALID_URL & HttpWatch

November 11th, 2007 - 5:30PM

Some customers contacted us recently to ask why they were seeing http://:/ recorded in HttpWatch. This URL produces an ‘Error 0×57′ in IE 6 and ERROR_INTERNET_INVALID_URL on IE 7. The sites causing these errors had one thing in common. They were either using the jQuery or YUI javascript libraries. It was not immediately obvious where this URL was being generated because there was nothing in the DOM with that URL when we checked with the IE Developer Toolbar. We set up a simple test page using the commented version of the jQuery library. If you access this page using HttpWatch you will … Continue reading →