Gareth Lennox

Tag Archives: content-management-system

Editing magic

TinyMCE rocks! I have been integrating it into our content management system, and I must say its impressive. Its very easy to use, and Just Works™, unlike some other web rich text editors out there. I managed to build a custom link screen in a couple of hours, with very little javascript. Another bonus is […]

Ajax-enabled user interfaces

There have been lots of people writing about ajax recently, and more importantly about ajax accessibility. Keeping it simple, I want to focus on what happens when a user has javascript off, or the browser doesn’t support the XMLHttpRequest object. Now this may seem obvious, but your interface should work without javascript enabled. Maybe it […]

Keeping a session alive

One of the problems we found with people using our content management system was that, frequently, they would take very long editing a page, causing the session to time out, thereby losing their changes. We could have written code to catch the timout session, and somehow not lose their changes, but we decided on a […]