Exploring a new frontier

Beginning a few years ago, there have been a few projects – Rhino, Jaxer, more recently Narwhal – that proclaimed we were about to enter a golden era of server-side JavaScript programming. But the implementations always seemed to fall a bit …

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Safari vs. Safari: label

Prior to version 3 (now out of beta in Leopard), Safari was one of few mainstream browsers that didn’t do anything when the user clicked on a HTML input elements label text.

Most browsers treat a label-click as an element-click – that is …

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Things I Learned This Week

It’s been a busy week, working on a fancy/complicated Web project. Here’s a smattering of things I’ve learned:

IE7 breaks old assumptions about float clearing

I have been using a variant of ALA‘s Practical CSS Forms…

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Bug? Prototype, IE, getElementsByClassName, and "length"

I've been swearing like a foul-tempered pirate at IE a lot this week. This was one of the problems, something that seems to be a bug in the popular Prototype framework. Hopefully, my posting it here will save someone else much frustration.

So, I have …

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