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Hovering Intently

Late to the party, I know, but it's worth pointing this out, as an addendum to previous ranting. hoverIntent is a jQuery plugin that replaces the standard on/off hover switch with a delay, triggering...

The Myth of The Next Big Language

It's not a showdown between Javascript and Ruby, it's a race towards bioware. Language oriented programming is not a new idea, but it has taken a long time to become a significant influence on...

The problem with CSS dropdown menus

This technique been mentioned in passing for a couple of years now, and recently seems to be gaining a fair amount of attention. Many web designers love the idea of building dropdowns like this....

Higher Order Primitives in PHP (and more...)

Thanks again to Harry, I stumbled across two fascinating projects that tackle a particular fundamental problem in PHP5. The ambition of metaphp is to take over the world, and that's actually not such...

By , 21st January 2006 In:

Hoodlum Scripting

Why and MenTaLguY show how to upwink javascript into web requests - is this a replacement for Greasemonkey, or just total insanity?

By , 27th August 2005 In:

do.del.icio.us

I've started a simple repository of Greasemonkey User Scripts. Mostly experiments I've been playing with in my spare time, and occasional annoyances with sites that I feel compelled to fix. The most...

By , 12th June 2005 In:

Userscripts in IE

Yep, the cat couldn't stay in the bag any longer... I know of at least two implementations that are wingling their way out of development - Trixie and now Turnabout Of course, an Internet Explorer...

By , 8th June 2005 In:

Asynchronous Representational State Transfer

AJAX is not new(s). Previously, I've been critical of the nomenclature, perhaps more for aesthetic reasons than anything else, but I have to agree with Simon Willison, who...

By , 4th June 2005 In:

Multicolumn Layouts in CSS

Gecko support for CSS3 multicolumn layouts looks interesting... I know next to nothing about CSS3 in Mozilla, but this is something that I have wanted to use on a...

By , 3rd May 2005 In:

Ajax and UX

Amongst those of the user experience and information architecture persuasion, there seems to be a growing trend that involves taking interesting new technological and interactive...

By , 21st February 2005 In:

Style Object Stew

Think you understand the basics of HTML and the Document Object Model? Start with a basic CSS selector: #items { width:180px; height:220px; } Now the HTML that this CSS decorates: ...

By , 21st September 2004 In:

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