Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats

Own your Identity had a great post today detailing a great feature on the signup form of the Get Satisfaction site. They rely on the fact that sites like Twitter and Flickr publish an hCard microformat for all of their users publicly on their website.

Posted at 12am on 05/23/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Application Design, Interface Design read on

Selecting XML Nodes with JavaScript (Peril of getElementsByTagName)

Parsing XML in the browser can be a tricky beast. There are many different wrong ways to do it, which can leave you cold and naked in a snowstorm if you're not careful. So, let's put on the metaphorical electric one-sie of standards based code and let the power of Edison heat our JavaScript code like the innards of a tauntaun.

Posted at 5pm on 05/10/08 | no comments | Filed Under: JavaScript read on

Javascript Objects are NOT JSON

The headline should more accurately read “Javascript Objects are not necessarily JSON.” But that waters it down a bit, don’t you think?

I know this has been posted a few times before, but this is not something I knew until recently, and after learning it, have noticed quite a few other people doing it wrong as well. So, to risk adding another reverb to the echo chamber, I’ll post a link to a

Posted at 10pm on 05/09/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: JavaScript read on
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