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Weekend Links – Usability Nightmares, DOM Scripting, Lint, jEdit & PHP, World’s Largest Websites

By David Walsh on September 30, 2007

I link you, I link you a lot...

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

Smashing magazine put together a great list of usability-killers frequently seen on websites. Don't make these mistakes!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/09/27/10-usability-nightmares-you-should-be-aware-of/

Accelerated DOM Scripting

Jonathan Snook has written another book, this time about DOM scripting, JavaScript libraries, and the usual CSS/HTML. Check it out!
http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/accelerated_dom_scripting/

Javascript Lint

Javascript Lint is a great tool that looks for errors and bad programming practices within your JavaScript coding. Is your JavaScript up to snuff?
http://javascriptlint.com/

Use jEdit to Edit Your PHP

I use jEdit for all of my coding and this article describes setting up your jEdit text editor for PHP development.
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/use-jedit-php

What Nine of the World's Largest Websites Are Running On

Ever wonder what Digg, Youtube, and Flickr run on? Visit the article to find out.
http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=173

Recent Features

By David WalshNovember 8, 2010
LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools
One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog. This "lightbox" isn't like others: no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much." With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace: a Facebook lightbox...
By David WalshAugust 29, 2011
Create Namespaced Classes with MooTools
MooTools has always gotten a bit of grief for not inherently using and standardizing namespaced-based JavaScript classes like the Dojo Toolkit does. Many developers create their classes as globals which is generally frowned up. I mostly disagree with that stance, but each to their own. In any event...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshJanuary 2, 2013
afterscriptexecute Event
Fellow Mozillian Daniel Buchner, curator of the X-Tag project and clever developer who showed us how to detect dom node insertions using CSS animations, recently showed me a new JavaScript feature I'd never heard of: the SCRIPT element's afterscriptexecute event.
By David WalshApril 25, 2011
Facebook Open Graph META Tags
It's no secret that Facebook has become a major traffic driver for all types of websites. Nowadays even large corporations steer consumers toward their Facebook pages instead of the corporate websites directly. And of course there are Facebook "Like" and "Recommend" widgets on every website. One...

Weekend Links – Usability Nightmares, DOM Scripting, Lint, jEdit & PHP, World’s Largest Websites

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

Accelerated DOM Scripting

Javascript Lint

Use jEdit to Edit Your PHP

What Nine of the World's Largest Websites Are Running On

Recent Features

LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools

Create Namespaced Classes with MooTools

Incredible Demos

afterscriptexecute Event

Facebook Open Graph META Tags

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