Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

If your custom web application requires a cross browser context menu, try eLouai's Javascript DHTML Popup Menu It works by disabling the default contextmenu and this is replaced with a div which can be hidden or made visible whenever the right mouse button (the context menu) is selected.

Mashups are applications that integrate APIs and data from at least two or more vendors. [ Chandu Thota ] Housing Maps is a Mashup. This application involves Google Maps API and Craig's list data .

Enabling HTTP compression in IIS 6.0 provides faster transmission times between IIS and compression-enabled browsers Compression-enabled browsers typically send the following header if they are compression-enabled: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate. HTTP compression can be beneficial unless processor usage is already very high. If the % Processor Time counter is already 80 percent or higher, enabling HTTP compression is not recommended. You can compress static files and application response files. Compressing application response files is usually called dynamic compression. When the CPU of your server is not heavily loaded, the simplest compression strategy is to enable static and dynamic compression for all of the sites and site elements (directories and files) on the server. Scott Forsyth has an interesting step by step article on HTTP Compression in IIS 6.0 . In it he also talks about how to disable or enable compression at the site, sub-folder and file level. [ Screenshots ] XCompre