BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. If wishes were horses, book authors would have a herd. All too often you see the ‘oops’ and such only after the book is in print. In my case, I’ve worked with JavaScript for so long (since the very beginning) I brought along a couple of bad habits that made […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a note at Mad Techie Woman about an error in the Learning JavaScript book I could kick myself for. It has to do with quirks mode, and the fact that browsers interpret an XHTML document as HTML when served with an .htm extension, and the fact that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ajaxian has a pushback at Prototype criticism. Among the criticism is: A lot of javascript tutorials written today are based on the prototype framework. So, I thought it would be nice to see how other people use prototype.js . What I found is that the majority of people use it only because they […]
M David Peterson points out a comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis over at the Ongoing post on the JSON/XML thing: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis (Dec 21 2006, at 18:52) Anders: It’s a stretch to call the man who designed both RSS 2.0 and OPML an “XML partisan.” Toro! Toro! Olé!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dare Obasanjo and I don’t always agree, but today I agree with him completely when he writes about the tightening of data from web services: The obvious reaction was to make the Google and del.icio.us announcements into a REST vs. SOAP or XML vs. JSON story since geeks like to turn every […]