You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
I found a link on Ajaxian today about a date picker widget that uses Prototype and Scriptaculous. But why does it have to look so ugly?
I recently finished writing a date picker for work. I’m not entirely pleased with it, but it seems to work OK.
Of course, my standards are a bit higher when it [...]
The other day, I posted the following to the Prototype Core mailing list:
Has anyone taken the time to verify that the numerous warnings generated by running JavaScript Lint against Prototype are innocuous? Prototype 1.5.1 generates 160 warnings. For example: prototype.js:2300: WARNING: undeclared identifier: node [...]
Luke Wroblewski recently posted an interesting article on the design of Web Forms: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms. He analyses the eye tracking results from study participants as they filled out several forms with different button placements.
I find it interesting that the fastest completion results favour the option which could cause the greatest [...]