And… we’re back. Went to Italy for a week and there was the usual bedlam at work prior to anyone going away so I didn’t have much time for other things.
Things of note now I’m back?
Textpattern had their first official release. Old news for those who care I know but there’s always been something elegant about the user interface that’s drawn me back. The Wordpress UI seems clunky by comparison. My opinion of course.
Once I get time to get things installed and running on the new pc I’ll try it out.
I finally got around to picking up Dan Cederholm’s Web Standards Solutions Which is pretty good. Some of it confirmed some things that I was already doing anyway, which is always good to know and gives a different (and at times simpler) version of things I tend to code. Definately worth buying.
There’s other things worth mentioning but I’ve things to sort out so I’ll leave it to next time.
I must admit that the xmlhttprequest thing ( I can’t currently use the “a” word without wanting to punch myself in the face repeatedly) seems pretty interesting. It still relies on having Javascript turned on of course although I’ve never seen any data to show what proportion have js turned off so it may not matter anyway.
The point is to put a bit of thought into where and when it’s used so the user isn’t punished for their choices. What’s the phrase, “graceful degredation”?
Being the form freak that I am you can bet the xmlhttprequest thing (txt ?) is going to be sneaking into some of my work but not being a javascript coder I couldn’t really see how it all came together. There’s a post on rajshekhar.net that describes the process in a format that even I can understand. I think I’ve found a good enough reason to get to grips with javascript.
Rajshekhar link was via Deep Resonance.
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