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Logical XOR in JavaScript
Of course there wouldn’t be an XOR function in JavaScript when I needed one. So I googled around and found an implementation at How To Create. But it only took two arguments. So I rolled my own supporting a variable number of arguments. In my personal stuff, I’ve put it into a Math library under [...]
Fundamental Problem with YUI Button
Buttons! Let’s make them obvious and good looking. Let’s make them have inline images and cool hover colors. Let’s make them three dimensional. Especially so, let’s make them from markup so that we don’t take functionality away from technology disabled users. Ruh roh Shaggy! The YUI Button component is misbehaving. It is taking away the [...]
OMG SOA
In today’s Web 2.0 world of ultimate abstraction, you don’t need to be bothered with the rudimentary low level programming functions of everyday languages. Client Side implementation of JavaScript functions across the browser landscape is unreliable at best, so why should you trust it for anything? So using forward thinking and futureproof compatibility design, naturally [...]
Conservative Design Example: Multiple Option List
All of the posts in the Conservative Design series so far have been brainstorming of design patterns. But how about some real life examples, some actual code? Let’s dive in. The first example I decided to tackle was the Option List, specifically the variant that allows multiple options to be selected. Let me start out [...]
Conservative Design: Command Line Interface
This is another post in the series entitled Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements. The argument has existed since the dawn of the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Which is better, keyboard-exclusive Command Line or mouse-intensive GUI’s? As more enterprise architectures are moving from terminals to web interfaces for their products, and as time is moving [...]
Namespaces in Ext DomQuery
Do you want to use custom attributes in your XHTML? Do you use the YUI Library and Jack Slocum’s wonderful DomQuery selector engine? If you want to select attribute nodes with a namespace in your XHTML, DomQuery does not support namespaces as an option to do so. But by adding a small snippet of code [...]
YUI Button Lite