Ok, this is a rant: What is the deal with people asking me about commercial use of my scripts, getting an answer and not even bothering answering any longer? I have published scripts for use and study for about 9 years now and every once in a while I get a comment or email following […]

Update#2: the third demo allows for preselect states and unlimited levels by using a nested UL and radiobuttons enjoy. Update: the second demo now allows for preselect states and shows the first dropdown enjoy. The interface element of connected select boxes (one select box changing the options in the other one) is one of the […]

Finally we are doing the last reviews for the new book by Norm and me published by Friends of Ed called “Web Development Solutions – Ajax, APIs and Hosted Services Made Easy”. It has been quite a task to get this one out, with the first technical reviewer never showing up and Norm having to […]

Just found this gem by Gareth Dart on the WebAim mailing list: There seems to be a belief common to designers of captchas that, as soon as their form goes live, a small red LED will start flashing at the board meeting of the World Evil Hacker Organisation. Shady figures will exchange nods and evil […]

On the second day of the Yahoo! internal Frontend Engineering summit in Sunnyvale I’ve been talking about the interplay of CSS and JavaScript. You can download the CSS vs. JS presentation in PDF format – 865KB. Here is the presentation teaser: One of the big discussion topics right now is where CSS ends and JavaScript […]