Yesterday I blogged about creating new site using httpheaders, I will blog in the future about exactally how I did it.
But I have added a simple HTML DOM reference search to the site using XMLHttpRequest.
It's here http://km0ti0n.blunted.co.uk/reference.xap and it works in IE / FF / Opera and Safari!
There's another web application there (that's "WIP", well very old "WIP"!!!) that will return a greater depth of information.
It been a long old while since last blog entry, and I felt it was long past time to make one!
Asp.net was my chosen backend quite a while back but as time when on and as I used it with more intensive GUI web applications I became to like it less and less. It wasn;t the codebehind that I disliked, in fact C# is a dream to write in, it was html content it generated. I understand why it had to do certain things to attain a greater modularity and appeal to a larger number of developers. With time I came choose Web Services as the my main means of comunication with the server as you had greater control over the content rendered.
Until, this is, I wanted to create a simple web site with some server logic using C#. I was going to use Web services to return xhtml content-type but as someone suggested "thats like used an SUV on a go-kart track!". So I used HttpHeaders, that let me define my own extention and process them as I wish the content returned is exactaly as I wanted.
So I decided to create a simple javascript reference site based on my httpheaders.
http://km0ti0n.blunted.co.uk