Until the advent of AJAX, to view an updated version of a page, you'd have to refresh the page. A page refresh link still has its place today for website that update frequently but don't offer AJAX or META refresh capabilities.
Click here to refresh the page
There you have it! Using the history object allows a simple refresh!
While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world...
You've probably heard the talk around the water cooler about how promises are the future. All of the cool kids are using them, but you don't see what makes them so special. Can't you just use a callback? What's the big deal? In this article, we'll...
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We all joke about the days of Web yesteryear. You remember them: stupid animated GIFs (flames and "coming soon" images, most notably), lame counters, guestbooks, applets, etc. Another "feature" we thought we had gotten rid of was the marquee. The marquee was a rudimentary, javascript-like...
Thanks. Very simple abd it works. (((HUGS)))
Thanks. Very simple and it works. (((HUGS)))