javascript
Mike Shaver, a founding member of the Mozilla team, has strong feelings about how the web became popular: If you choose a platform that needs tools, if you give up the viral soft collaboration of View Source and copy-and-paste mashups and being able to jam jQuery in the hole that
javascript
I've been troubleshooting a bit of JavaScript lately, so I've enabled script debugging [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2004/10/26/247912.aspx] in IE7. Whenever the browser encounters a JavaScript error on a web page, instead of the default, unobtrusive little status bar notification.
software development concepts
Marc Hedlund offered some unique advice to web entrepreneurs last month: One of my favorite business model suggestions for [web] entrepreneurs is to find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. To illustrate, Marc provides a list of UNIX commands
firefox
Although I prefer IE7's native speed and feel for day-to-day browsing chores, there's no doubt that Firefox is my primary web development IDE. Whenever I need to troubleshoot HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, I immediately reach for Firefox. That's primarily because of two incredibly powerful
user experience
We understand what 404 means: Page Not Found. But the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak. Consider the default 404 page under
web development
Torrent [http://www.utorrent.com/], my favorite BitTorrent client, now offers a web UI. See if you can spot the differences between the Web UI and the Windows UI: After spending about a year interacting with Torrent exclusively through Remote Desktop, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how good the
web development
Over the last three years, this site has become far more popular than I ever could have imagined. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Finding an audience and opening a dialog with that audience is the whole point of writing a blog in the first place. But on
css
A commenter recently noted that it was difficult to print the Programmer's Bill of Rights post. And he's right. It's high time I set up a print stylesheet for this website. I added the following link tag to the page header: <link rel=
html
Bill de hra [http://www.dehora.net/journal/] recently highlighted a little experiment Ian Hickson ran [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Aug/0048.html] in August: > I did a short study recently checking only for syntax errors in HTML documents, and the results were that of the
user experience
I remember switching my homepage from AltaVista to Google back in 2000 for one simple reason: it was blazingly fast. It's the same reason I don't use personalized Google, or Google suggest as my homepage: they're simply too slow. Dare Obasanjo* wonders if AJAX
javascript
The 1996 JavaWorld article Is JavaScript here to stay? is almost amusing in retrospect. John Lam recently observed that JavaScript is the world's most ubiquitous computing runtime. I think the answer is an emphatic yes. JavaScript is currently undergoing a renaissance through AJAX. Sure, the AJAX-ified clones of
web development
Or, What Would World Wide Web Developers Do? To get an idea of what web developers are using -- as compared to typical web users -- take a look at the comprehensive w3schools browser statistics, picking up from mid-2004 when the Google statistics end: Quite a difference from the other