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Monthly Archives: February 2005

Another LiveInfo fix

24-Feb-05

Andrew Gregory reported some bugs in Opera 7.54u2. The bug in Opera 7.54u2 turned out to be rather strange. Any opera browser below 7.6 uses an iframe and I check the html within the frame to see if it is loaded. I use the text </liveInfo> as that is the root node. In 7.54u2, there [...]

LiveInfo Update

21-Feb-05

Just a minor update release on LiveInfo. Version 1.01 just tidies up some Javascript warnings that sometimes occur.

Semantic Web - right now

18-Feb-05

A semantic interface means finding information online will be much easier as unrelated results won’t appear. Here’s a gentle intro to the semantic web.
The semantic web won’t be in wide use yet but the University of Southhampton has released an interface to a new semantic web interface called mSpace. They have an example interface [...]

Introducing LiveInfo..

14-Feb-05

Directly evolved from liveSearch, is a updated version which I’m calling liveInfo. As can be seen at chregu’s blog LiveSearch displays live search results while a user enters the search text. You’ve probably seen Google Suggest which uses the same technology (XMLHTTPRequest).
One of the coolest things about liveSearch is the keyboard navigation where users, when [...]

LiveInfo - How it works

14-Feb-05

LiveInfo is directly evolved from Livesearch. If you don’t know what liveSearch is, liveSearch allowed users to search a website while still viewing the current page. The original can be seen here. Wanting to make use of liveSearch for one of my own projects, I proceeded to make some changes from which evolved LiveInfo. LiveInfo [...]

Unobstrusive Javascript

13-Feb-05

An excellent article with examples of the correct way to do javascript.

A change…

01-Feb-05

I’ve moved my blog from Mambo to Wordpress. Mambo is a great CMS but as a blogging tool, its not quite so mature. I wanted something simple and web standards friendly and wordpress seems to be it. The casualties in this move are the comments and the uk tv guide. I’m no longer publishing the [...]