Let's Build the Web We Want
General web technology post
The following is a handy list of the things I’m currently thinking about and/or working with as well as a few things that are coming up around the bend. I’ll do this kind of thing from time to time. Mental housekeeping. One with it.
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 […]
That’s an unwieldy title, if I ever saw (wrote?) one. Still it describes the code in question exactly, so unwieldy will have to do for this post. Anyway, for SEO purposes I’ve wanted to rename some of my files from underscore delineated (_) to hyphen delineated (-) for a couple of years now. I chose […]
Yeah, Even to You. 🙂 I suspect it’s because the people that are most vocal about the subject are from places like Google and Yahoo!, but it seems to me that a lot of people think that front end performance really only matters for extremely high traffic sites. When talking about these kind of things […]
It made quite a splash recently so I’m sure some of you are curious about Amazon’s new Content Delivery Network (CDN) service, CloudFront. I know the Amazon Web Services suite of tools can be a little intimidating for non-developers, so this article outline how pretty much any reasonably technical person can get themselves up and […]