on10.net login in Atlas

Adam Kinney — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:17:00 GMT

Laurent Kempe has created a sample of the on10.net login modal screen using Atlas controls. I actually haven't tried it but it looks similiar in the screenshot.

Its interesting to me because currently in the 10 codebase we are using custom controls where we define every bit of html and JavaScript. Since the launch of 10, a new version of Atlas has been released and we're looking towards leveraging the existing controls available. I'm really looking forward to digging deeper into Atlas controls, behaviors along with CSS adapters. I think that may save us a bit of time in the future writing custom controls.

window.attachEvent and FireFox

Adam Kinney — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:00:00 GMT

After reading Rumen Stankov's entry on telerik controls running on ie7 it reminded me of an interesting feature of Atlas. He brought up the Object detection method of deciphering what Browser is running your script.

// Good - the Object Detection Way. This is how it should be done.
if (window.attachEvent)
{
window.attachEvent('onunload', dispose);
}

// Bad. This is the most common IE client-side detection though.
if (document.all)
{
window.attachEvent('onunload', dispose);
}

What's interesting is, that if Atlas detects that you are running browsers other than IE it will include an additional file for compatibility. This .js file than adds a function to the window object called attachEvent which than wraps addEventListener.

This is great because now to attach events all you need to do is use the attachEvent function. But if you are using Atlas with your site, window.attachEvent is no longer IE only and therefore not useful as a function to be checked against for general browser detection. Something to think about, especially if you are planning on selling web controls.

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on10.net login in Atlas

window.attachEvent and FireFox