A colleague asked me today about how he could dump out a jQuery object and find out what was in it.

There are 2 ways I know of right now.

1) AjaxCFC contains a js file call dump.js and dDumper.js include these in your page, then use

The output is appended to the bottom of the HTML in the page, so you may have to scroll down a bit.

2) is download and use the jQuery dump plugin

This plugin looks exactly like a ColdFusion dump table.

During a recent project with a bent on improving UI we decided to take a look at what happened if an over zealous IT administrator in a company decided to disable activeX on his pure Internet Explorer environment. The results were disturbing therefore justifying the mantra that mission critical apps should still be functional without javascript and ajax. (Makes you want to dive into Flex huh? All that environment to do with as you please.)

The good folks over at JQuery believe that IE 7's implementation of native AJAX, i.e. a request that is not reliant on ActiveX such as Firefox, is flawed, so they simply use the ActiveX object. You can see this in the jQuery source

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