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JavaScript

Baseline library

I’ve only downloaded it and started playing, but I like the idea of a JavaScript library based purely on implementing standards. Small and lightweight, Dean Edwards’ base2.DOM provides a good baseline for development without worrying about interesting proprietary extensions and recalcitrant browsers. Not that I’m naming names. Edwards’ library does provide support for the older 5.x […]

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Technology Weblogging

WordPress and categories

WordPress has some really serious flaws in its post management. It flips posts to private, it resets categories, it returns 404 for pages that are found. If you have a post up in one window and forget and open it into another window, the auto-saving will overwrite your changes, even after the item is published. […]

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XHTML/HTML

Comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I realize that perhaps my choice of serving up XHTML instead of HTML through WordPress seems audacious, but if you want to point out potential problems, can you send me an email? Rather than put something in the comments to ‘demonstrate’ the problem? Believe it or not, I am open […]

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Technology

Pastel fruit flavored marshmallows

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Perhaps I’m overly tired tonight, but Noded’s post today really resonated. JR wrote: I think back to the people at SXSW who are supposedly the movers and shakers in our high tech online world. They seem to be working in mediocrity, working with browsers that break, operating systems that leave you vulnerable […]

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Technology Web

Wither away Ajax?

Dare Obasanjo has wrung the death knell on Ajax, but I disagree with him on several counts. He writes: Most people who’ve done significant AJAX development will admit that the development story is a mess. I personally don’t mind the the Javascript language but I’m appalled that the most state of the art development process I’ve […]