Simon says that 2005 will be the year of the DOM. Web applications like Gmail and Google suggest are only the most well known but there’s <a href="http://sleepyhead81.blogspot.com/2005/01/web-applications-in-2005-case-study.html"plenty more in the pipeline too!
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My Meteor – why don't you work in Firefox?
There’s only 3 mobile phone companies in Ireland, Vodafone, O2 and Meteor. I’ve been a customer of each and am currently with Meteor. That might change however as their newly redesigned meteor.ie website doesn’t work properly in Firefox. They offer 300 free texts from their site but when one hits the “SEND” button nothing happens.
If you’re a Meteor user mail info@meteor.ie with your phone number and your PIN, or 3 phone numbers you’ve rung in the past month (for verification).
Ask them politely to fix their website so it works in Mozilla Firefox! The Javascript error I get is,
Error: window.smsForm has no properties
Source File: https://www.mymeteor.ie/mymeteor/phone_book/send_sms.cfm
Line: 295
Oh, and last time I checked, Vodafone’s website offers 300 texts a month and it did work in Firefox.
Later – Niall suggested entering your text message, phone number, and instead of hitting “SEND” copy and paste the following code into the URL address bar and press return: javascript:window.document.smsForm.submit();
Now how hard is that for Meteor to fix?
Oristus stuff – make money, profits and userss, podcast usability
Building Rich DHTML User Interfaces Revisited
This post by John Lim is a must-read for any web developer looking to develop a “rich client” on their sites.
He lists several tools and libraries to help in the process and I really like the look of JPSpan although it looks like I need to download it from the sourceforge CVS as there’s no tarball yet. I must have a play with it later as XmlHttpRequest looks dead useful!
Two From OK/Cancel: Search and the Desktop
Search is Not All There – meta data, meta data, meta data. It’s too much for one person, but for a community? That depends on an altruistic community willing to enter meta data about a file.
What’s Hiding Behind Search-Based Navigation? – searching the web isn’t the same as a desktop search. On your desktop, you expect it to return the right answer first time, every time. On the web, well, read the article. It’s an interesting analysis of both.
Javascript RPC – XMLHttpRequest
I really want to investigate Javascript RPC. There are so many possibilities for creating rich clients in the browser using it, style sheets and dhtml. This short tutorial will give you a quick look into this world.
Mozilla/Firefox Stuff
The PRGoogleBar adds page rank to the Google Bar for Mozilla, another reason not to use IE!
The Mozile inline editor looks promising. It allows one to edit xhtml documents within a web page in a WYSIWYG way. It might help to style the containing DIV a little so it actually looks like an editor however.
Here’s a nasty spoof to try in Mozilla or Firefox. It may not work in FF PR1 but in earlier browsers it’ll display a Paypal login screen that looks very authentic!
Calendar Script Tutorial
Here’s a nice way of adding a calendar graphic to your website – use the background= attribute of html to fool the eye!
Nice Slideshow Effect
This is a nice effect and described well too. Check out the demo! He has another slideshow too! Cool!