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.
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.
One of the official goals for my DOM Bindings framework (think Cocoa Bindings for the DOM), is to make Web applications as close to first class citizens as possible on your desktop. That means supporting both drag & drop and cut & paste.
Although I’ve decided not to continue purchasing NetNewsWire in the future, I still read Brent Simmon’s blog inessential.com. His latest post about how NetNewsWire reads feeds contains the following statement:
It’s important, in this increasingly cross-platform and multiple-gadget world, to be able to get your feeds anywhere, anytime.
I’ve been working on a PHP-based Web site for my employer — tying together WordPress and Vanilla under an SSO umbrella — and I’m impressed by how awful the PHP language is.