Responsibility to visitor

Seeing that more and more visits to this website appear to come from users who are looking for a solution of how to perform a specific web design task, I have been reviewing my pages.

This is in many cases I have made a search to do just this and it does not help if the pages that I find does not make sense.

A case in point is the work on Asynchronous data exchange between the server and the webpage. I started this with my work on AJAX and more recently with the Fetch API. Similarly with the async and await and JavaScript Promise pages. I think that they are all related but even I don't think this clear.

As with many things on this website it is a "work in progress". I need to ensure consistancy on these pages.

Also the XMLHttpRequest page is not explained well and I haven't got an example.
(actually, the XMLHttpRequest example is on my AJAX and JSON page)

Float and Clear

In further review I also see that I am not clear with respect to the CSS Layout useage of Float and Clear.

Formatting of code snippets - and a description of what the pages are about

I started out trying to just make notes but I have worked out ways to format code snippets so that they are colour highlighted and comments from source are presented in a "quote box".

My Method

In most cases what I will do is to create a webpage and make notes from what I find on other websites. This will often be the code examples adapted for my own use. In other cases the examples are for me to attempt to understand new code to give me inspiration for new features.

The work with asynchronous data exchange is largely academic, however, I may want to use this technique to add configuration parameters to designs.

I think that the addition of working examples is key to the understanding of how code works. This is the approach taken on the W3C Schools website and many others including MDN. I hope that I have gone some way in doing this myself and the pages on my template design should show this.