Let's Build the Web We Want
While I’m not a library guy in my day to day (more on that soon, I promise,) I do have some experience with YUI and featured it in my JavaScript library evaluation and talk in April, so it’s definitely of interest when a major new release is pending. YUI is mightily impressive. Style-wise, the code […]
I’m doing a presentation at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. I’m doing the JavaScript Library Comparisons presentation I did in May once again. I’m going to tweak it a little bit to skew towards more beginners. Should be fun. Hope to see some of you there. I’m hoping I can get […]
I’m wondering why this code fails to stop a form submission document.forms[0].addEventListener(“submit”,falsify, false); function falsify() { return false; } and this code successfully kills it? document.forms[1].onsubmit = falsify; function falsify() { return false; } Try it out (Firefox/Safari/Chrome/Opera only- there’s no addEventListener support in Internet Explorer). The form action on both is an alert. The […]
A question was posed in the comments on my JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit Part 2 – Callbacks with Twitter post about handling Twitter search results for a #hashtag. As with the rest of Twitter’s API, dealing with search results is relatively straightforward. This post will examine how to handle a #hashtag search. If […]
Lost in the past few years of IE6 based stagnation (and ensuing developer angst) is the fact that the Internet Explorer team have come up with some pretty cool enhancements to the way we build web sites over the past ten plus years. So, while we’re cheering on Firefox’s growing market share, hesitantly eying IE8 […]