JavaScript Error ‘expected identifier, string or number’ in IE

Sometimes you get those errors that just pick at you and you can’t seem to find a solution. It happened to me this morning when testing a JavaScript library I’m writing in IE7. FireFox worked without a hitch, but IE threw an ‘expected identifier, string or number’ error pointing to the last line [...]

IE7, xmlhttprequest, and 1223 status code

I’m working on a program that is fairly Ajax heavy right now. Several of the JS routines need to call for XML from the server, and when there is no data to parse I’m sending a 204 header (no content) so that the JS can know there’s no data without having to parse the [...]