While the question has already been answered, I must mention that I’ve heard the former described as “shaved gerbil notation.” Proper terminology is important.
Month: March 2006
Since its release, FireBug has been on my short list of must‐have extensions for any sort of web development, but the recently‐released 0.3 version launches it right to the top of the list. I’m finding I use it even more than the Web Developer Toolbar.
Lightbox JS 2.0. The new version renders the half‐dozen unofficial “improvement” attemps damn near obsolete. Logical groupings for images, Scriptaculous effects, and even‐more‐unobtrusive markup. Sexy.
Batman Onomatopoeia. GLIPP!
Adaptive Path’s Designing and Building with Ajax conference will be in Austin. Tomorrow morning I’m going to beg my boss to let me attend.
I’ve been a cautious supporter of efforts to address global warming — I’m sure it’s happening, but have always wondered if the horror‐story predictions were exaggerated — but Bill Maher’s monologue at the end of Real Time last night got me on board, unequivocally and enthusiastically. (Why can’t politicians inspire me the same way?) Beg, borrow, or steal in order to watch it yourself. You won’t regret it.
8 Web Design Warm Fuzzy Feelings. When I checked this blog’s design in IE for the first time and saw that I didn’t have anything to fix, I went to my fridge and had a beer. I don’t know if that will ever happen again.
You live in Japan and your internet is that slow? I thought you guys find 50mb/s free in cereal boxes.
Fla. to Link Teacher Pay To Students’ Test Scores. This makes me eye‐gougingly mad. We’re talking Montana militia mad. With such a strong disincentive for good teachers to work at poor schools, how will poor schools get better?
CSS event:Selectors. As CSS selector syntax is used more and more in DOM scripting, I must wonder: why did we settle on the DOM API for client‐side scripting? CSS selectors and XPath are much more terse and versatile.