Siolon

I hate JavaScript. I mean I really hate JavaScript. Dealing with different implementations of the DOM between browsers is a menace I couldn’t duplicate if I tried. I’ve tried JS libraries from Mootools, script.aculo.us, and so on until recently. I knew jQuery existed, but I didn’t realize how powerful the language was until recently. When I realized I could select and manipulate DOM elements with CSS selectors then I was off to the races! I love how it’s tailored for designers who already understand that syntax. There is no more getElementById(”search”) or other garbage, because (read more...)

I remember when I first learned of AJAX, and I remember thinking: “I’ll never figure that out.” Well, remember when you never thought you’d learn how to remove the underline on your links with CSS? That proved easier than we thought (we later found out that CSS is an amazingly powerful presentation language). We need to cut through the needless language and get to the meat of AJAX. We don’t need to worry about what the XMLHttpRequest object is at this point. Often designers only need to know enough to duplicate an effect and not (read more...)