Post Archive

› February 22, 2006

OOJS - overhyped and overcomplicating

Yeah, it's blasphemous. But I said it, and I'll clarify it a bit: I see practically no use for writing object oriented code in JavaScript. Lemme explain...

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› February 17, 2006

minus

Well that was crazy. Just working on a little bug fix where I discovered a difference between how a dash used to represent minus, behaves differently than the minus entity: −. Apparently some browsers *ahem* will wrap at the dash when cramped for space, even if the bit of text is floating. Changing from dash to − fixes the problem, and I suppose on some planet it might even be considered more semantic. Not a coincidence that it's winter.

› February 16, 2006

Opposing Ruby on Rails

An opposing viewpoint on the Ruby on Rails framework. I have no experience to speak for or against RoR, but I think it's good to see all sides of a story.

› February 15, 2006

CSS Mastery

I really like the whole - "I just got a copy of the book I authored, and so I took some pictures of it and posted them to flickr". Andy Budd just did so, and you can check out CSS Mastery at this photoset. What a great way to get a sense of the book.

› February 14, 2006

Yahoo! UI Library

This looks remarkably useful:

The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX.

More info about the user interface library and the subset design patterns library. This via and thanks to Daring Fireball.

› February 13, 2006

Cutting edge Opera

Want to try out the latest and greatest from Opera? Want to help Opera get better? Opera has started to release weekly builds for their desktop browser. This is planned to continue until the final release of Merlin (Opera 9). These builds are unpolished and far less tested than the preview builds and may include crashers, regressions and severe bugs; so if you're afraid of losing data in the browser or crashing your computer you should probably stay with the preview builds.

› February 10, 2006

Electric Dreams Webchat

My friend Ted Friedman, author of a new book: Electric Dreams, Computers in American Culture, will be partaking in a web based chat today at 2pm over at washingtonpost.com. More about Ted's new book over here, and Ted's blog.

Stringify

Comrade Lindquist, Javascript provocateur, emacs user, web-graphics author, and friend has started up his own blog over at http://www.stringify.com/. Warm up your RSS feeder, and add this to your list.

› February 7, 2006

Opera 9 Preview 2 released

I hope you guys aren't too busy testing IE7 to cram testing another browser into your schedule. Because this is a sweet release, with loads of improvements. We see improvements such as site specific preferences, the integrated bittorrent client is back again, preview thumbnails of the webpages when you hover over tabs (can be enabled for ctrl-tab cycling too, but is off by default), konfabulator-like widgets, opacities in stylesheets, the JavaScript Console is renamed the Error Console and is generally improved, and it's gotten even faster.

A little linkdump to other posts and to the download:

› February 3, 2006

Eat this viral spammy goodness

So you know what would be a good idea? How about we take an existing service, like say.. Google web search, and re-skin it in a clean simple way, get a little text-advert revenue coming in, then use that revenue to award prizes for people who use the service? Blingo!

Sorry I can't resist the prizes, and hey, it worked for Greg. Also worth noting - if you use Google for web search anyway, you're not loosing anything, they haven't junked it up and if you use their toolbar, or set your home page to it, then there's really no harm in trying. So go ahead and try to win your PSP, ipod, movie tickets, or cash value search google through Blingo.