12 December 2005
Brief moments
by ecmanaut
I recognize that subway setting and feeling. I was on the verge of patting a girl of the same mood the last moment before stepping off the train, on a recent visit to the city, but finally decided not to, as I might just as easily be a scary rather than w
HedgerWow's Blog - Simulating text-overflow on Firefox with unobtrusive Javascript.
by ecmanaut
Wow; good work! Could you elaborate a bit on the involvement of mouse events in this solution; I find it somewhat puzzling and quizzical.
HedgerWow's Blog - Initialization in Javascript
by ecmanaut
The onload handler handles some things that the crude case of the other two do not, perhaps most importantly guaranteeing that the entire document has been loaded and parsed (so, for instance, entities such as document.body is available in most browsers)
Remote JSON - JSONP
by ecmanaut
Excellent suggestion. I recently discussed a similar, slightly less generic solution for <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/designing-useful-json-feeds.html">generating usable JSON feeds</a> which is somewhat easier to use for novice programmer
11 December 2005
Comment Notification Added
by ecmanaut
Nice hack. I'd suggest using an onclick handler and keeping the href attribute for browsers with javascript turned off, though.
10 December 2005
Four Visitor Mapping Services Compared
by ecmanaut
I share your positive experiences with ClustrMaps and their customer service. Upon contacting them about a feature I wanted, they were interested but busy, and recommended a peek at GVisit. Upon suggesting the same feature there, I was invited to supply t
08 December 2005
Designing useful JSON feeds
by ecmanaut
Whew, good to hear. :-)<br><br><i>I wasn't sure if you were still checking comments on that one. sorry about that.</i><br><br>Fortunately the blog owner gets mail annotation of posts, so we can track what happens everywhere. In a while, Stephen's current
Commentosphere - Name, URL, Some Other Thoughts
by ecmanaut
I see an additional possible problem with the solution, which is, on the other hand, addressable by a slight change of algorithm. Busy-looping in an event handler in wait of some other asynchronous event (which might even fail) is a source of pain and tro
Ning Tech Blog
by ecmanaut
Excellent. I'm looking forward to an appropriately proud / happy announcement post on it when it does. :-)<br><br>Most of the Ning applications I would like to write really need that initial import stage to shave down the adoption threshold for previous u
It's my blog and I'll cry if I want to
by ecmanaut
Being the boyfriend of when life seems like that is one of the better sides to being-boyfriend-ness; you should consider borrowing one and feel really childishly spoiled for a while. It does lots of good to the little mushy person deep inside, that just w
Commetosphere
by ecmanaut
<i>It seems to be working just fine now :)</i><br><br>For a moment you had me thinking you had solved the past issues with larger bodies of Del.icio.us data there, before realizing you had probably dropped the date part from all comment times and this was
05 December 2005
Mindsack » Blog Archive » Webdev Character Classes?
by ecmanaut
Damnit! Here you’re talking about character classes far outside of a RegExp context! Get a hold of yourself! ;-)
Mindsack » Blog Archive » Dynodes: Cross-Domain Scripting using Dynamic Node Creation
by ecmanaut
I've thought that same thought, but so far, Del.icio.us have not implemented the <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/designing-useful-json-feeds.html">JSON callback design</a>. Let's hope they do sometime soon.
Mindsack » Blog Archive » Dynodes: Cross-Domain Scripting using Dynamic Node Creation
by ecmanaut
Is the reason behind your mouse in/hover/out cycle just your way of circumventing the lack of a trustworthy onload event (without callback aid from the remote script), or does it circumvent some <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components
as days pass by » What’s going on
by ecmanaut
I'd argue that is better to write your ideas down than always implementing them right away; if you have the kind of idea flow I do, you wouldn't have time to implement them all and implement them well, and the latter is worth doing if the idea was worth d
Greasemonkey Method: Update for Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4 - Freshblog
by ecmanaut
Excellent and to-the-point summary! I think I'll write a small follow-up on <a href="http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/styling-your-blog-post-tags-list-with.html?tags=Blogger" >how to style the tags list to get nice little Del.icio.us icons</a> the way
reoriginalize » Blog Archive » Work With Us
by ecmanaut
Tempting. While a bit early for me to get in touch (living in Sweden, for one thing) for submitting a formal application, Jesse Andrews made you look really interesting to a guy of my own interests -- among others, open development on the web, a default a
04 December 2005
Coming Soon - Custom Sources in Book Burro
by ecmanaut
Things I found necessary when I thought up my own plugin API (and as I implemented lookups for a larger body of sites) were: <ul><li>request method (some use POST instead of GET for the price info page, some even for the book info page we want to link to
03 December 2005
Comments Feed for Blogger
by ecmanaut
That <i>would</i> indeed work. Rather nice an idea too, at that.<br><br>Regarding your XOXO library, you could still use it at Ning, if it is indeed <i>yours</i> (you hold the copyrights) -- unless you feel strongly about only releasing it under the GPL,
del.icio.us: we rolling
by ecmanaut
Request: provide a second API password that just offers read-only access to data. This could be fed to various importers, et cetera, knowing they will not be able to tamper with any of your content.
Ajaxian: Google Yahoo! Challenge: Maps and Mail
by ecmanaut
In a four-point bullet list, it might be pertinent not to quote this entry twice, to the letter:<br><br>»The (Yahoo!) UI is more mouse intensive than Gmail, so it simply took longer to move messages around. With a lower mail volume (think "typical home u
02 December 2005
Using Greasemonkey & del.icio.us for categories in Blogger
by ecmanaut
I believe this post is getting a little overcrowded to carry more information; if you want to clear things up for your readers, you might opt to write a follow-up more or less from scratch. I believe my linked three in one script covers most of steps 4, 5
Commetosphere
by ecmanaut
First thought on names: this is larger than commenting. It's generic talk on the web. "Web talk"? <a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail546.html" rel="nofollow">Hm. Seems taken already</a>.<br><br>Second thought: this is essentially a dictap
