BurningbirdThe Web Standards Project points to a post, Dear JavaScript Library Developers by Chris Heilmann, which makes some excellent points about the difficulties in using today’s JS libraries. In particular, I want to point out Chris’ last point: Don’t play the “mine is smaller than yours” card. It gives the wrong impression to new developers as they might be […]
I’m really peeved at the Firebug folks. Here I thought I was finished with the first chapter of “Adding Ajax”. Now I have to edit it to include a section that starts with, Before we jump into how to add Ajax effects to your pages, you’ll need to download Firefox and install both it and Firebug. In my […]
The discussion associated with the last post, on the display of a pornographic image at a tech conference, has really been civil and engaged. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a discussion of this nature where many of the concerns aren’t rejected almost out of hand. It’s actually rather refreshing. One person did bring up […]
A Dell customer, unhappy with the company’s response to his complaints, sued the company. However, rather than having the papers delivered to the company headquarters, he had them delivered to a Dell Kiosk in a shopping mall. When the court date came, Dell wasn’t represented and the customer won the case. What’s particularly interesting with this, is […]
Firebug has released a beta of the first full version, 1.0. The previous version was extremely helpful. This version is beyond helpful. I dare say it goes all the way to, “Wow!” I don’t use Firebug because I’m a Firefox browser user. I’m a Firefox browser user because of extensions like Firebug.