Doug Bowman’s tale of the new buttons at Google:
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls).
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A new version of jQuery rolled out today with significant improvements and enhancements over 1.2.6. Read all about it.
I was getting some thoughts together for an article on this site after a full week using Panic’s new IDE, Coda. But Mr. John Gruber of Daring Fireball beat me to the punch.
I say what he says:
“One way to judge the scope of an app is to think about how much time you’re intended to [...]
I authored an article a few weeks back on a technique for stopping users from leaving a web form if they’ve made changes using JavaScript and the Prototype library. There was one fatal flaw in this otherwise successful script: it only checked for changes in text fields. Well, if you were as frustrated as I [...]
I recently tried to install the Mint BirdFeeder Pepper, and failed despite my best efforts to follow the readme instructions to the T. Unsure what I’m missing, my WordPress feeds aren’t working properly anymore… even after replacing the Pepper-edited versions with fresh copies from the WP 2.1.1 archive. Grrr. Perhaps it’s a WP permalinks issue. [...]
