Monthly Archives: December 2006

My semi-annual blogger navel gazing post

I guess the nicest thing, at least with respect to this blog, about yesterday’s new feature release and the JSON/XML debate it tangentially inspired is that it gave me something to blog about. I’ve got an impulse to just keep flapping my gums about it, but there’s nothing else I’ve really got to say [...]

do not taunt happy fun JSON

Allow me to repeat myself somewhat and clarify my general opinion of JSON and its use in cross-domain browser scripting: Happy Fun JSON is not really an API. Happy Fun JSON is not a bold declaration of side-taking in the grand war of web service specifications. Do not base business models on Happy Fun JSON. Caution: [...]

correlation is not causation

By the by: Correlating the new del.icio.us JSON URL feed with Google’s recent deprecation of the SOAP Search API is about as effective as noticing how often the clock reads 12:34 when you just happen to be looking at it.

Tagometers and Travesties

You know you’ve truly arrived in Silicon Valley when the darling new feature you just helped launch on a Web 2.0 site gets shredded in a rant by Dave Winer. :) My day, having started with me in a foul mood, has been made. Pre-launch, the tooth marks in my tongue have [...]

drag and drop and the missing mouseup

With the draggable circles – click, drag, move the mouse outside the rectangle, release the mouse button. Now move the mouse back inside the rectangle, and it still thinks your dragging, even though you’ve mouse-up’d.I guess this is because it’s not catching the onmouseup when you’re outside it’s “domain”. Perhaps make it automatically trigger the [...]

yahoo TV refreshed, redux and rejected

Okay, I’m sick of it now, like many others. I was dazzled by the AJAX pagination technique at first, because I think it’s an interesting advance in AJAX in general. But, I’ve been a user of the Yahoo! TV Grid – er Listings – for years now. It’s useless to me now, [...]