Let's Build the Web We Want
Although they doubled the number of people let into the club last week, the progress seems painfully slow- at least to me. Sitting on the outside, looking in, it seems like an eternity. Especially since I expected to be well under way at this point. I’m really surprised that they didn’t ramp it up much […]
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 […]