Category Archives: Idea
Create Your Own Google Chrome “App”
I was reading LifeHacker and came across a post regarding how to enable Google Apps in Chrome. Curious, I dug into the extensions and noticed… well, they’re pretty simple. So I decided to create my own for Facebook
New Window, No In-source Event
I was prompted by this Twitter post to cross-post an old blog entry of mine. Having JavaScript events in-source binds you to whatever JavaScript method (and it’s signature) you’ve specified, not to mention breaking the tenets of Progressive Enhancement. When wishing to launch an anchor’s href into a new window while using a STRICT doctype, [...]
Creating Elements in JavaScript, (any good?)
I’ve been playing around with a couple of ideas for JavaScript methods, thought I’d get some feedback. The following link is a code snippet in PasteBin that shows the methods and a quick test: http://pastebin.com/f7b68ab19 Basically, the two I wrote and that I’m evaluating are: Create Element This method caches a created element instance in [...]
Dear Google Maps
Kansas City closed the Paseo Bridge, which is my lifeline to and from work, for 9 months! Google Maps tells me that this is the best route, but knowing that bridge is out, shouldn’t I be able to tell Google that? I decided to ask them…
Real Clout…
Want to know what power is? Power is getting people to change their web server configurations to support your new beta experiment. Gotta tip my hat to Google… they really have clout. It’s amazing to me… Google comes out with a Web Accelerator that basically caches the page to their server like static content, which [...]
