Monday, 20th September 2004
A9 and Google Local. Remote scripting features heavily on these two recent high profile site launches.
UI Patterns and Techniques (via) Patterns for User Interface design.
My llama photos. I think it’s a llama; it might be an alpaca.
CSS 2.1 Index. The best way of browing the CSS spec. Even better with TypeAhead find.
Tkinter Tricks: Using Complex Numbers to Rotate Canvas Items. Smart use of Python’s complex number type.
Net security threats growing fast. 30,000+ PCs a day are being compromised for botnets.
The Sun Does Not Shine Online. Paper losing 90,000 readers a day to their free web edition.
Implementing Piped List in CSS (via) Simple, effective border trick.
Matching newlines in JavaScript
Just a quick note: the . character in a JavaScript regular expression will never match a newline character. If you want to match any character including newlines you can use the [\s\S] character class instead, which means “any character that’s either whitespace or not whitespace”.
Why online newspapers require registration. Rick Skrenta says it’s due to competition with print ads and spam.