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Always use the for attribute on labels
In the same vein as the last post: For a while there, I thought I could take a shortcut by saying:
<label><input type="checkbox" name="foo" value="1" /> The l…
Use onclick, not onchange for checkboxes
Note to self: Always use onclick
, not onchange
, on checkboxes.
Most browsers work fine, but Internet Explorer only seems to invoke onchange
when the checkbox loses focus. However, onclick
is invoked wh…
@media looks fun -- anyone got a ticket?
@media hadn’t even registered on my radar until now when Roger Johansson mentioned he’s going. And now I really want to go. I’m not a web designer, I’m a hard-core coder, but I absolutely love learnin…
Following links from MS Office documents
We’ve had some problems with links embedded in MS Office documents. The symptom is that when you click the link, you’re bounced to the login page even though you’re already logged in, and after loggin…
Blinksale does ads in their interface
It’s not the first web app to place ads inline. One that springs to mind is the old intranets.com (are they still around?) which seemed to be all about selling you stuff. But for a modern-day web you…
[Rails] Make capistrano ask for the password first
I frequently find myself doing rake deploy
with capistrano, and then wander off to do something else, while the checkout process runs its minute-long course. And then I forget what I was doing, and on…
Housing inventory goes up
A friend pointed me to the counter on boligsiden.dk, which currently lists 40.875 apartments and houses for sale. Just last week the number was in the low 39.000’s. It’s going up fast. It’s gone up by…
Tastefulness
Doc Searls, in his talk at Reboot8, mentioned this 10 year old clip of Steve Jobs lambasting Microsoft for not having any taste. It’s a great clip because, as Doc mentioned, he really nails Microsoft,…
Photoshop replacement? Please!
When I saw the story on Pixel, a cross-platform Photoshop replacement, it hit me again how ready I am for something to replace Photoshop.
Photoshop, at $649, is way too expensive for a typical web deve…
PublicSquare demo
People are telling me yesterday’s demo of PublicSquare went well. I got great response from people saying they’d been looking for exactly this tool and hadn’t found it till this—that’s the perfect re…