BurningbirdFlickr recently pulled its use of Flash in some of the pages and replaced it with DHTML (Dynamic HTML). If you’re not familiar with DHTML, it’s a mix of scripting language and underlying page ‘object’ model’ used to modify the appearance or behavior of the page without having to reload it from the server. I was pleased […]
how much I love brilliantly executed satire? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Web 1.0! Please do not let the excitement go to your heads so much that you piss your pants. Or if you, do it in someone else’s garage.
The security problem I mentioned in the last post does NOT impact on Wordform — huzzah! However, I did some good feedback about other areas of concern, so I will be making some modifications to ensure the application is as secure as possible — including making sure the metadata forms are only called from within […]
I have a secret fetish for gardens and anytime I’m feeling stressed, I spend time out at the Botanical Gardens, Tower Grove, or Shaw. However, when I’m constrained to the house by weather or heat or the need to finish work, I make do with garden weblogs. I’m not sure why, but these weblogs almost […]
Seems that O’Reilly has had another one of its invite-only summits, but this time about Ajax. If you’ve missed hearing about Ajax, it’s the web development equivalent of tags (as taxonomy) and metaformats (as semantics). This is part of the technology that makes America, well, America. A new twist, though: As you can see from […]