Every now and then, but especially when I build pages that combine index of images together with a preview of one of them, I wish there was a way to tell a browser to remember a part of a current page and apply it at appropriate place on the next one from the same domain which also has same ID.

The gist of a problem is that I sometimes want bookmark-ability of separate pages without throwing away a product of an expensive operation. I want my cake and eat it too.

This is impossible, since there’s no way to actually store DOM objects and I’m not even sure it’s a good idea. Nevertheless, I certainly do miss the feature.

I’ll be giving a talk at NEST this Saturday with a catchall title “AJAX in jaz” (AJAX and me). Since the title gives me quite a lot of breathing space and I’m willing to take more if necessary, I’d like to hear from everyone who might meet me there at ungodly hour of 10AM.

I’d especially appreciate it if you could tell me what interests you and what doesn’t, so I don’t waste your time. Otherwise I’ll just ramble on about things I find important and interesting.

Another day, another Internet Explorer problem.

You can’t set a name attribute on elements created with createElement method. You either have to provide the name when executing the method in true IE-only fashion (see example on linked page) or have to use some other method of creation like more widely usable but still non-standard innerHTML .