Favorite snipit of code today
Signing up for unigo.com today I found my favorite piece of javascript. There is a checkbox for: When checking the box you get this pop up: Then you think to yourself, WTF? Didn’t my checking the box verify my agreement? Here is the code that made it all possible: Hope you enjoyed my code snipit [...]
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Progressive Enhancement
Building for the lowest common denominator and then expanding upward. It sounds like a simple concept but most wed developers just can’t seem to grasp it. Not believing accessibility matters or being so inexperienced that building sites seems to just be a hack fest to make the “design” work in all browsers is the single [...]
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jQuery vs Prototype – Document Load: jQuery wins
Recently I started using jQuery instead of Prototype for my web applications. When I first started using a javascript library I picked Prototype because to be honest jQuery intimidated me, there was a lot of mystery about it. Well I took another look at it a few days ago and I was floored, boy I [...]
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Javascript yeilding and graceful degration
I’ve been watching a few YUI Theatre and Joseph Smarr’s talk about AJAX and Plaxo.
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