Today I recieved John Resig’s book “Pro JavaScript Techniques” in the mail. I ordered it after reading the review at Digital Web Magazine. It seems like a good way of filling in those couple blank spots I have in my Javascript knowledge, and perhaps make my code better re-usable. While reading the article I also ran into Jquery, one of John’s projects. It’s a pretty cool javascript library with some nice short-hand techniques, definitely worth checking out more thoroughly sometime soon; if I ever get the time.
Better forms, less space
Heavy.com’s senior web developer Mike Brittain’s article at A List Apart describes a very nifty way of creating compact HTML forms while keeping your XHTML semantic. Forms can be quite tricky, so this is a very welcome solution.
New Yahoo mail web interface
The people at Yahoo have developed a new interface for their webmail client. Well, actually it seems a lot like they took laszlomail, restyled it to look like Outlook and launched it as their own “revolutionary” product. So interface-wise it’s definitely nothing groundbreaking, but seeing a big player like Yahoo getting into stuff like this definitely shows how web 2.0 is taking over. Considering the amounts and variety of people that use Yahoo mail, for many this will be the first contact with the interface conventions of the future.
Who knows; perhaps some day this “internet” might just turn out to be useful after all.
