This article is not about the negative aspects of HTML but about that other dark side of HTML that is called shadow DOM . If you are a frontend developer and you have never heard about shadow DOM then you should definitely keep reading because you are missing some cool stuff about webdevelopment. Continue reading
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How real Frontend Developers work
Today I spoke with a frontend developer at my work and he showed me some really nice tools frontend developers use nowadays for creating websites. As a backend developer I never looked further then Twitter Bootstrap and jQuerybut frontend development is so much more I discovered today!
Cross Domain Ajax with Cookies support using jQuery
Ajax requests are only possible when the protocol, domain and port number are the same. But sometimes you want to do Ajax calls to a different domain for example when you are creating a shared service that people should be able to call using Ajax or when you are developing locally and you are testing on a remote server. There are multiple ways to get around this restriction for example by using CORS, an iFrame or JSONP. In my last project I got around the restriction using JSONP, so I will explain that here. See links for more information about solving it using CORS.