As you may have heard, the upcoming iOS 4.3 will support AirPlay streaming in Mobile Safari. Previously video streaming was only available in Apple-controlled iOS applications like the YouTube and iPod/Video apps, but the new iOS 4.3 beta opens up AirPlay support to both third party App Store applications, as well as embedded web videos using either the Quicktime plugin () or the

This is one of those posts I wrote just to be able to link back to it later. I see a lot of questions on the subject, and even though I don’t mind explaining the same thing over and over again, it’s probably easier to just write it down once.

By now, everyone knows how to detect and use localStorage. However, I’ve been using a seemingly unconventional (but slightly more efficient) technique to do so. Since I haven’t seen it documented anywhere else, here goes!

Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level.

Are you using MySQL’s utf8 charset in your databases? In this write-up I’ll explain why you should switch to utf8mb4 instead, and how to do it.

Looking for a list of all reserved words in JavaScript? You’ve come to the right place. I recently needed such a list myself, but ended up comparing the reserved keywords in all ECMAScript versions as well. The result is listed below, for future reference.

This post explains a hidden gem in the XMLHttpRequest standard that simplifies fetching and parsing JSON data through Ajax.

If Content Security Policy is enabled for protection against cross-site scripting attacks (i.e. the unsafe-inline option is not set), the use of inline