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I am quite impressed with the speed of Chrome…I really want to see where this beta goes. There are some bugs that I would like to see addressed, features I’d like to see added.
I would love to see Firefox adapt these Javascript enhancements. The speed of AJAX-style calls is absolutely amazing. [...]
I was working on the new FAP, adding some fun little suggestion-type-AI things…when something unexpected caught my eye.
The program was organizing things alphabetically. I didn’t tell it how to organize anything…it just did it.
…why did the program do this? I never told it to…?
It’s called Ghost Code, where the program starts doing unexpected things…nothing harmful, [...]
CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are easily hacked…apparently.
So…I’m brainstorming different methods of testing for human intelligence that aren’t easily hacked by computers.
One major problem of conventional image-based CAPTCHAs are their inaccessibility to people that are blind. This shouldn’t matter to me if I’m developing a CAPTCHA for an [...]
“You can establish yourself with a typically bad interface, if you’re early and lucky or if you have the market power to force people to use your product. See Myspace, Amazon, MSN, Windows, QuarkXPress. Once you get to be market leader with a typically complicated interface, you actually have a good shot at keeping your [...]
Making your own CSS styles is a nice (albiet butchered and terrible implemented) touch in MySpace.
In a normal web design workflow, you have something like this:
.modules {
background-color: #fff;
padding: 15px;
}
.modules p {
color: #aaa;
line-height: 150%;
}
In MySpace’s world, it’s more like this:
table table table table td, table table table table tbody td {
background-color: transparent !important;
padding: 15px !important;
}
table table [...]
Just making sure this thing works. I didn’t want to deal with WordPress or some other bloated blog solution, so I quickly wrote my own. 12 killobytes of features include:
Threaded comments
RSS feeds
A simple folksonomy
Thorough HTML sanitization
Just something simple for my humble little website where I can blab about code, design and function.
Update: My 12kB blog [...]