Monthly Archive for August, 2009

How to motivate oneself to take short breaks at work?

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If you are reading this post or my blog in general, you probably are a software enginner, programmer, designer – a person who spends considerable amount of time at their desk, similar to me.

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AddThis and HTTPS / SSL support – ‘Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?’

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Yesterday I wrote about a problem I came across using AddThis service. Today I had a new issue.

This is an example of the code generated by AddThis:


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It’s said what you need to do is to include it in your page and AddThis will do all the work for you. Now, it didn’t in my case…

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AddThis on IE – Object doesn’t support this property or method

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AddThis is a great service – it allows robust integration with online services, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, del.icio.us. What you need to do is to get your button’s code on AddThis homepage and use it in your project. Additionally you can configure the widget; you can refer to AddThis API, where you can find needed information and examples.

I created a component which I included on a couple of pages. I was very happy to use it until I started testing my pages on different browsers. It turned out there was a problem on IE (only; why didn’t that surprise me…); in two of three places it worked just fine but in one place I was getting JavaScript error:

jserror 350x234 AddThis on IE   Object doesnt support this property or method

As usual JavaScript error message on IE gave little (if not zero) information on the error. The only statement to give was the problem was on AddThis side. Unfortunately debugging their code was not the best case because the referenced library was obfuscated and (rather not) dedicated to a human being.

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