Tag Archives: js

HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5

Oh hey, look! It’s another blog post—and this one is cross-posted on hacks.mozilla.com. I won’t say this is the start of a renewed blogging habit, but let’s see what happens. dl { margin-left: 2em; } dd { margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; } Drag and drop is one of [...]

An unnecessary Template Attribute Language

A funny thing happened on the way to building a delayed real-time feed display: I got temporarily obsessed with implementing a template language in JavaScript that, as it turned out later, I didn’t need. About the feed project itself, I hope to write more soon—but for now I want to get this extra [...]

rss feeds of bookmarklets?

Hmm, a quick idea: Has anyone yet tried making an RSS feed of bookmarklets? I’d use it by dragging it to the Firefox bookmark toolbar to get a drop-down menu of usable bookmarklets, dynamically generated by an online app. In particular, say I had an outline in XoxoOutliner, and I wanted to [...]

Event Delegation based DHTML Drag and Drop?

So, as the urge to tinker rises again, I’ve started playing with YUI and cracked open some XoxoOutliner code again. One of the things that struck me like a bolt from the blue recently is the notion of event delegation. For the most part, I’ve treated event bubbling as a nuisance, except for [...]

Futility in alternate pasts and futures in human augmentation

While it’s great to draw inspiration and ideas from the past, recreating the past in the hope that it becomes the future seems like a futile idea. Does anyone really want to return to a command-line interface to manipulate documents? It’s designing for a past that never happened, one where we all became computer scientists [...]